Eddie Davis is "strongly considering" running for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The president of the N.C. Association of Educators confirmed to Dome this afternoon that he is thinking about running against June Atkinson in the Democratic primary next year.
"I've looked around, and I don't know that there is a position that would be any more influential in terms of making education the No. 1 priority for the state of North Carolina," he said.
Davis told the NCAE board last week and gave an interview to the Triangle Tribune, an African-American weekly paper, that will go to press this weekend.
"It's not that I don't think that the current officeholder is doing a good job," he said. "I think she is doing an adequate job."
Davis, 58, is a former high school English teacher and member of the State Board of Education. If he runs, he says he would make closing the racial achievement gap a stronger priority and listen more closely to schoolteachers.
