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State Capitol monuments lack diversity

bniolet — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:50:34 -0400

* A black or Native American child visiting the state Capitol on a school field trip can wander among the statues, monuments and plaques without seeing an image of someone of the same skin color.

Eddie Davis, a former teacher and former head of the state's largest teachers union, calls it "segregated history in the 21st century." He is proposing that the state Capitol in downtown Raleigh, built with the help of slave labor, reflect and represent all of its people, including those who aren't white, about a quarter to one-third of the population.

Buncombe schools will raise class size

bniolet — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:18:21 -0400

Buncombe County Schools will raise class size in higher grades to cope with state-mandated budget cuts to education.

The system lost 42 teaching positions because of a $15 million budget cut, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports.

They have a deal

bniolet — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:37:44 -0400

House and Senate budget negotiators reached a final, no more changes, budget deal just before 6 p.m. Monday.

The budget has not been put into a bill form yet, but the plan is to have the document done before midnight so it can be read into the record, a necessary step before any votes could be taken.

Dems pitch saved programs

bniolet — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:13:23 -0400

House Democrats spent the first hour of budget debate listing the items that proposed taxes would save.

It's been the strategy all along for House Democrats on selling the tax increase: don't say the word "taxes" and name the programs the new revenue would save.

"The most decimating and draconian and dramatic cuts to the school budget can be restored," said Rep. Rick Glazier, a Fayetteville Democrat.

Stam: Larger classes save construction

bniolet — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:47:40 -0400

House Republican Leader Paul Stam said that one more student in Wake County classrooms would save as much as $200 million in construction costs.

Perdue: leave class size alone

bniolet — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:53:41 -0400

A spokesman for Gov. Beverly Perdue said that the Senate's budget proposal has left the governor "troubled."

“The Senate made some good investments in what we know of its budget so far, but at this point in time Governor Perdue is troubled by the proposed increase in class size," said David Kochman, a spokesman. "An increase of two students per class means eliminating 6,200 teaching positions and reducing the amount of individual attention our kids receive in the classroom.”

Senate budget increases class size

bniolet — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:02:57 -0400

The Senate's proposed $20.05 billion budget relies on an average of two more students in classrooms across the state.

Increasing class size to 20 students in K-3 and 22 in grades 4-12 would save $320 million annually, said Sen. Linda Garrou, the senate's senior budget writer and a Winston-Salem Democrat.