NEA: NC is 42nd (not 49th) in per pupil spending
I have spent months countering the “49th in the nation myth,” a talking point manufactured by public school advocacy groups to attack the budget approved by the NC General Assembly last year. At long...
View ArticlePublic School Forum gets it right on rankings
In their Friday Report email, the NC Public School Forum argues that per-pupil expenditure rankings, which were published by the National Education Association (NEA) last month, should be viewed in...
View ArticleEducation ranking debate: the N&O weighs in
Yippee – the editors of the News & Observer just realized that North Carolina ranks 42nd in per-pupil spending! Of course, I reported this fact over a month ago. But, hey, better late than never....
View ArticleJohn Wilson: Eliminate charter schools
In an op-ed published in the News & Observer, John I. Wilson, former executive director of the National Education Association, outlines a plan to eliminate charter schools. Of course, he is not...
View ArticleNEA pitches plan to create a friends/enemies list
New Business Item #3 at the 2012 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly of the National Education Association (NEA) NEA shall investigate and then compile a list of individuals and corporations who...
View ArticleNEA environmental education resolution
Here is another interesting item from the 2012 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly of the National Education Association (NEA): B-49. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION The National Education Association...
View ArticleTeachers’ unions: The slide continues
Teachers’ unions are bleeding members. Education Week reports that the National Education Association (NEA) has lost 100,000 members. Now the union plans to “retool” their mission to recoup some of...
View ArticleTeachers’ union shrinkage
The Education Intelligence Agency recently updated their official membership figures for the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) and other National Education Association (NEA) state...
View ArticleNEA doles out thousands of dollars to NC groups
Mike Antonucci of the Education Intelligence Agency reports that the National Education Association (NEA) gave $15 million in grants to 94 advocacy groups during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. I did a...
View ArticleArgumentation primer for lefties
I spent quite a bit of time “arguing” with folks on the comment section of a News & Observer article highlighting the NEA’s “Rankings and Estimates” study, among other topics. It was exhausting....
View ArticleNEA down by 234,000 members in three years
Education Week reporter Stephen Sawchuk is posting live updates from the National Association Education convention in Atlanta. He writes, Since 2010-11, the National Education Association has lost...
View ArticleNEA Legislative Report Card released
The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers’ union, released a report card that assigns letter grades to each member of Congress. As one would expect, the grades are based...
View ArticleNEA ad backs away from $500 million cut claim
This morning I reluctantly watched a new anti-Tillis ad from the National Education Association (NEA). (If you have a hearty constitution and want to watch it, go here.) It is part of a seven-figure ad...
View ArticleNEA: NC 37th for teacher pay, 39th for per-pupil spending
WRAL’s Kelly Hinchcliffe reports, North Carolina ranks 37th in the nation for average teacher pay, according to estimates released Monday by the National Education Association. The ranking is an...
View ArticleAdjusted teacher pay rank is 29th in the nation
Earlier today, the National Education Association (NEA) released their annual Rankings and Estimates report. According to the report, North Carolina’s average teacher salary for 2018 ranked 39th out...
View ArticleTalking about teacher pay
Kris Nordstrom of the N.C. Justice Center spends a great deal of time and effort critiquing my cost-of-living adjustments to the average teacher pay figures released by the National Education...
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Candidate for NEA committee ready for revolution
The 2018 National Education Association’s (NEA) Representative Assembly meeting is in Minneapolis this week. This, um, bold statement from a candidate for the NEA’s Executive Committee caught my eye:...
View ArticleNEA: Average teacher salary in NC is 30th in the nation
According to the annual Rankings and Estimates study released today, North Carolina’s average teacher salary of $54,682 is 30th among the 50 states and District of Columbia for the 2019-20 school year....
View ArticlePreliminary analysis: NC average teacher salary adjusted for COL is 26th in...
My initial calculations indicate that North Carolina’s average teacher salary, when adjusted for cost of living (COL), ranks 26th in the nation. I explained the methodology used to adjust for cost of...
View ArticleNorth Carolina is a focus of teacher union political spending
The incomparable Mike Antonucci outlines National Education Association and American Federation for Teachers spending on the 2020 elections. As of Sept. 30, the NEA Advocacy Fund had spent $13.6...
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