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This week, General Assembly leaders opted to not adjourn sine die, a formal adjournment process to end the legislative session, choosing instead to let the clock run out on the current...
Increase teacher pay. Change the school calendar. Give the state superintendent of public instruction more power. Those are a few of the recommendations adopted Dec. 12 by the North Carolina House Select Committee on an Education System for North Carolina’s Future.
Teacher pay; power struggle; state superintendent, state board of education; high-stakes tests, student achievement
A North Carolina House special committee on the future of education wrapped up its work Monday with a handful of broad suggestions for the General Assembly.
Giving more control over K-12 schools and state education policy to the superintendent has been one of the more controversial topics discussed by the committee created by House Speaker Tim Moore, (R-Cleveland), and led by Rep. John Torbett, a Republi