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WNC behind state average in educator diversity Wednesday, April 28, 2021 A report issued by the DRIVE task force says N.C.’s educators don’t sufficiently reflect classroom diversity. File photo North Carolina has about 1.5 million public school students, and according to a report from the Department of Public Instruction, 52.3 percent are minority students, while only 20.5 percent of teachers are minorities.  It’s a disparity Gov. Roy Cooper hopes to improve wi...

Submitted by BlueNC on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 08:22 GOP MOVE TO MAKE PROGRAM EVALUATION DIVISION PARTISAN DRAWS CRITICISM: The nearly 15-year-old unit said to have saved the state millions, known as the Program Evaluation Division, has more than a dozen staffers. They will be replaced by partisan staff tasked with similar duties in the coming weeks. Legislative leaders did not say whether staff would be laid off or transferred. Democrats aren’t alone in their discontent with the sudden change. Fo...

NC legislature dissolves nonpartisan unit that targeted waste, fraud and abuse Lucille Sherman, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Feb. 17—RALEIGH — The North Carolina legislatures nonpartisan division tasked with evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of public services is being dissolved, Republican leaders confirmed after a former staffer broke the news on Twitter this week. The nearly 15-year-old unit said to have saved the state millions, known as the Program Eval...

GOP leaders: NC legislature watchdog agency to be shuttered RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly’s state government watchdog agency will soon be shuttered, according to the offices of the legislature’s Republican leaders. State law created the nonpartisan Program Evaluation Division in 2007, making North Carolina’s legislature one of the last in the country to create such an office. The division, monitored by an oversight committee of legislators who directs the agency’s...

Tue, 02/16/2021 - 07:39 Dear @ncgop. The only body empowered by the Constitution to determine constitutionality of an impeachment trial is the Senate. They did, so saying it isnt is like a judge saying something is inadmissible, but juror goes, screw it, I am considering it anyway.#ncpol#GOPisdead They actually took a vote on the lack of Constitutionality and it failed. But just like the Big Lie, these things live on. RECAP: Fmr @NCGOP chair pleads guilty to lying to @fbi - no censure.@RepDavid...

The findings by the division, which employs more than a dozen researchers and other staff, were not always embraced by committee members and the agencies who were targeted. Other committee members praised the division‘s work. Spokespeople for Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore said this week that the General Assembly wanted to use other bipartisan oversight methods to address agency accountability. Leadership “is evaluating its current oversight functions to improve outco...

Economic development ranking system ‘cuts both ways’ The 2021 County Development Tiers map shows persistent poverty—and prosperity—in the usual regions. NCDOC map. Each year around this time, North Carolina takes a look at the economic prosperity, or lack thereof, in every one of its 100 counties. That analysis reveals the haves and the have nots, but it’s about much more than just bragging rights.  Millions of dollars of state funding tied to economic prosperity, or mor...

Challenges and opportunities for diversity in North Carolina schools Commitment determines outcomes for students   CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Rhonda Dillingham is executive director of the North Carolina Association for Public Charter Schools. There’s a saying that “the rain will show you where the holes in the roof are” and that couldn’t be more true over the past eight months in North Carolina and around the country. The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the forefront the challenges that all scho...