For months, Gov. Beverly Perdue has maintained that the federal stimulus money for education should prevent local districts from having to cut teachers.
Now that the state has a budget that does not explicitly prohibit districts from increasing class sizes in 4th grade and higher, Perdue wants the districts to say how they're spending their stimulus money, Lynn Bonner reports.
Perdue said Friday that she asked the State Board of Education this week to get a stimulus spending report from every district.
"The locals have received fairly significant sums of money from the federal government in education dollars earmarked for recovery, to keep massive cuts from happening in North Carolina," she said.
"That's what the money's for, so I've asked them to follow up within a month and find out what the money is actually being spent on."
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Re: Perdue wants to track school stimulus
"Do as I say, not as I do" Perdue wants to know where the money's going? That's what the taxpaying citizens of this state have been wondering ever since Jim Hunt took office. A $9B road bond in whatever year it was, all I ever saw was new DOT trucks on the roads, and they were back in two years? Holy cow! She should be ashamed of her self, but, it's politics, and they've gotten away with it for a generation, so why change now?