It's no secret that state educators are worried about what will happen to public education when lawmakers try to fill a $3.7 billion budget hole.
About 40 percent of the state budget is spent on K-12 education.
As a non-cabinet agency (meaning it's not run by a governor's appointee) the state Department of Public Instruction is freer to rally public support for its causes.
DPI has posted new web pages where the public can find K-12 budget info.
It's decorated with the "Fund Schools First" slogan that public education backers used during last year's budget debates.
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time well spent
January 7, 2011 - 8:36pm — FJ2009DPI shouldn't be "lobbying" for their cause. As a state employee in DENR we were told last year that regardless of what had been decided "we were to support the governors budget". Apparently education employees don't understand who is in charge and who makes the decisions.
All State employees work for the state and people of NC. The elected governor and GA make the budget. Stay out of the way and provide data when requested during the budget process. Any other behavior is outside of your role and responsibility and inappropriate. Go do the job you should be doing and stop spending time and money on a "fund us first" campaign.