I’m grateful North Carolina General Assembly leadership announced a budget framework that includes meaningful pay increases for our public school educators. Our educators deserve to be revered for the work and dedication behind North Carolina’s historic achievements in graduation rates, Advanced Placement participation and performance, Career and Technical Education credentials, and the percentage of graduates who passed a college-level course while still in high school. Paying educators well is an important way to show that reverence, and these pay raises would be a long-awaited step in the right direction.
I look forward to seeing the full budget, as I hope to see more investments in public education throughout its pages that will support our collective effort to build the best public education system in the nation by 2030.