Perdue's open book

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:53:05 -0400

Beverly Perdue has released her answers on a teacher's survey as well.

Not surprisingly, the lieutenant governor's responses to the N.C. Association of Educators are the same as those of state Treasurer Richard Moore, her rival in the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

She also supports keeping the cap on charter schools, using lottery money for public education and developing a "professional competitive salary" for teachers.

Like Moore, she opposes school vouchers and criticizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act, saying it is "significantly under funded and overly bureaucratic."

Perdue's answers draw more heavily on her biography, however. She notes that she was a public school teacher for kindergarten, ninth and 12th grades in Georgia and Florida, led Senate committees on education and received the NCAE's 2004 "Friend of Education" award.

"As a former teacher, and the mother of two boys, I believe no job is more important than the one that teachers do everyday," she wrote.

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