District administrators gathered the Mills River Elementary school community to surprise second-grade teacher Ryan Mitchell with the news that he is the 2022 North Carolina Regional Teacher of the Year for the Western Region.
Henderson County (Nov 22, 2021) - Under the ruse of a Monday morning pep rally for a canned food drive, district administrators gathered the Mills River Elementary school community to surprise second grade teacher Ryan Mitchell with the news that he is the 2022 North Carolina Regional Teacher of the Year for the Western Region.
Gov. Roy Cooper took notice of teacher pay discrepancy in his fiscal years 2021-23 budget recommendations.
Cooper proposes the state appropriate $268.9 million in fiscal year 2022 and $439.3 million in fiscal year 2023 in teacher pay “to decrease pay disparity between educators and similarly credentialed and experienced professionals in other fields,” his recommendation states.
“This budget also works to make good on our state’s Constitutional duty to make sure every child has access to a sound basic education,” Cooper said in a press release. “We know how to do that: Attract and keep good teachers with competitive pay and recruit young people to make teaching a career.”