Topic: Is NC providing access to quality public education?
In 1997, the NC Supreme Court held unanimously in the landmark Leandro case that North Carolina public school students are entitled under the state constitution to the “opportunity to receive a sound basic education” and therefore the state’s responsibility to provide it. In November 2017, more than 20 years after the initial ruling, Governor Roy Cooper formed the Governor’s Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education in the latest and perhaps most ambitious effort to date to ensure that the state meets its constitutional obligation when it comes to public education.
Guests:
Brad Wilson, Chair, Governor’s Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education
Melody Chalmers, Principal, E.E. Smith High School, Fayetteville
Melanie Dubis, Partner, Parker Poe
Debra Dowless, Assistant Superintendent, Hoke County Schools
Resources
EdLines
“A” Still Stands for Affluent
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article217796775.html
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/accountability/reporting/2018/documentation/chrtgrdrt18.pdf
3rd-grade reading scores drop
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article217789700.html
NC’s teacher wage penalty
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2018/09/teachers_wage_penalty.html?cmp=soc-twitter-shr
Interview Segments
Leandro at 21: Cooper commission, judge’s latest ruling offer hope for landmark education ruling
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2018/04/09/leandro-at-21-cooper-commission-judges-latest-ruling-offer-hope-for-landmark-education-ruling/
Long-running debate over NC school funding may be headed to ‘independent expert’
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article163380363.html
Gov. Cooper Press Release
https://governor.nc.gov/news/governor-cooper-appoints-governor%E2%80%99s-commission-access-sound-basic-education-0
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