@sarah-montgomery.bsky.social
We should have stayed on Friendster. Here for the distractions, following #nced
Reposted
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
Reposted
Thank you @keunghui.bsky.social for covering our students' ongoing wait to have their constitutional rights fulfilled
#ncol #LeadWithLeandro
#ncol #LeadWithLeandro
2025 will end without a ruling in NC’s long-running Leandro school funding case
It’s been almost two years since the North Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an appeal filed by GOP legislative leaders.
www.newsobserver.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thank you @keunghui.bsky.social for covering our students' ongoing wait to have their constitutional rights fulfilled
#ncol #LeadWithLeandro
#ncol #LeadWithLeandro
Reposted
Did you know NC is the only state without a budget right now? Lawmakers’ inaction is putting us at risk, and the longer we go without a budget, the more strain it places on families across our state.
It's time to invest in our communities, #NCGA.
It's time to invest in our communities, #NCGA.
NC budget stalemate deepens strain on safety nets, health system, advocates and providers say
Food insecurity is rising, Medicaid cuts are hitting and essential services are shrinking as the legislature’s budget deadlock deepens strain on safety nets. Vulnerable residents are feeling the fallout first, providers say, and they’re calling on lawmakers to end the standoff.
www.wfae.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Did you know NC is the only state without a budget right now? Lawmakers’ inaction is putting us at risk, and the longer we go without a budget, the more strain it places on families across our state.
It's time to invest in our communities, #NCGA.
It's time to invest in our communities, #NCGA.
amp.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
“The NC voucher program has been created by the General Assembly INSTEAD OF meeting its constitutional duty to provide “a general and uniform system of free public schools, wherein equal opportunity shall be provided for all students.”
“The NC voucher program has been created by the General Assembly INSTEAD OF meeting its constitutional duty to provide “a general and uniform system of free public schools, wherein equal opportunity shall be provided for all students.”
The NC Supreme Court’s inexplicable, historic silence on Leandro | Opinion
Gene Nichol: To be honest, I’m not anxious to hear from Paul Newby’s court. They’re no friends to the low-income students of North Carolina. | Opinion
amp.newsobserver.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
amp.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
“The NC voucher program has been created by the General Assembly INSTEAD OF meeting its constitutional duty to provide “a general and uniform system of free public schools, wherein equal opportunity shall be provided for all students.”
“The NC voucher program has been created by the General Assembly INSTEAD OF meeting its constitutional duty to provide “a general and uniform system of free public schools, wherein equal opportunity shall be provided for all students.”
Reposted
Did you know that the NC Constitution guarantees an equal public education to every student in the state? When lawmakers and judges side with wealthy private schools over rural and low income students, something has to change. #ncpol #court
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article313456307.html
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article313456307.html
The NC Supreme Court’s inexplicable, historic silence on Leandro | Opinion
Gene Nichol: To be honest, I’m not anxious to hear from Paul Newby’s court. They’re no friends to the low-income students of North Carolina. | Opinion
www.newsobserver.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Did you know that the NC Constitution guarantees an equal public education to every student in the state? When lawmakers and judges side with wealthy private schools over rural and low income students, something has to change. #ncpol #court
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article313456307.html
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article313456307.html
Reposted
All of these priorities (teacher pay, instructional support positions, etc) are part of the Leandro Plan that they’re supposed to be advocating for (and nothing in the Leandro Plan is conditional on revenue availability)
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
NC Board of Education focuses on teacher pay amid competing funding priorities ncnewsline.com/2025/12/04/n... #ncpol
NC Board of Education focuses on teacher pay amid competing funding priorities • NC Newsline
North Carolina Board of Education members pushed for better teacher pay and more mental health staff as DPI prepares its requests for the 2026 short session.
ncnewsline.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
All of these priorities (teacher pay, instructional support positions, etc) are part of the Leandro Plan that they’re supposed to be advocating for (and nothing in the Leandro Plan is conditional on revenue availability)
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
Reposted
One way to help WSFCS emerge from their budget challenges is to support the full funding of the Leandro Plan. If legislators met their constitutional obligations to students, WSFCS's budget hole would not exist
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
How to help Superintendent Don Phipps and the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools team move forward
As Superintendent Don Phipps begins his tenure, the "All In For Our Schools" campaign provides ways for you to support this district.
www.ednc.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
One way to help WSFCS emerge from their budget challenges is to support the full funding of the Leandro Plan. If legislators met their constitutional obligations to students, WSFCS's budget hole would not exist
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
Reposted
About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
An absolute infusion of hope, finally. Congrats and thank you for this win for the people, NYC
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
An absolute infusion of hope, finally. Congrats and thank you for this win for the people, NYC
Reposted
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Reposted
AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
Reposted
The Leandro Plan calls for increased funding for the Child Care WAGE$ and Infant Toddler Educator AWARD$ programs that provide educational attainment-based salary supplements for early childhood educators.
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
Child care advocates point to teacher wage supplements as low-cost, urgent fix
In 2023, the turnover rate for assistant and lead teachers in child care was 38%, up from 21% in 2019. Wage supplements could help.
www.ednc.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Leandro Plan calls for increased funding for the Child Care WAGE$ and Infant Toddler Educator AWARD$ programs that provide educational attainment-based salary supplements for early childhood educators.
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
Reposted
Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.
They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.
We must fight back.
They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.
We must fight back.
October 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.
They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.
We must fight back.
They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.
We must fight back.
Reposted
"If we want students to thrive, we must stop pretending excellent teaching can carry the weight of generational poverty, systemic racism, and chronic disinvestment on its own."
Schools Alone Can't Be the Great Equalizer. So What Now? (Opinion)
When I started as a school leader, I thought focusing on factors external to school was just “making excuses.” Not anymore.
www.edweek.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
"If we want students to thrive, we must stop pretending excellent teaching can carry the weight of generational poverty, systemic racism, and chronic disinvestment on its own."
Reposted
Thanks to Amber Lake for reporting on how Leandro would help the students in WSFCS who are now paying the price for budget holes caused by adults
#ncpol
#ncpol
Could Leandro Funds help with Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools' budget deficit?
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools faces a massive budget gap, but decades-old court rulings known as the Leandro case could provide funding.
www.wfmynews2.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Thanks to Amber Lake for reporting on how Leandro would help the students in WSFCS who are now paying the price for budget holes caused by adults
#ncpol
#ncpol
Reposted
America in a nutshell.
July 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
America in a nutshell.
Reposted
Great job by @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social and his team breaking down the impact in North Carolina from the Trump Administration's illegal impoundment of funds for our schools
#ncpol
#ncpol
Attorney General Jeff Jackson Sues to Protect $165 Million for NC Public Schools and Nearly 1,000 NC Educator Jobs - NCDOJ
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, July 14, 2025 Email: [email protected] Phone: 984-383-9038 Attorney General Jeff Jackson Sues to Protect $165 Million for NC Public Schools and Nearly 1,000 NC Educator J...
ncdoj.gov
July 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Great job by @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social and his team breaking down the impact in North Carolina from the Trump Administration's illegal impoundment of funds for our schools
#ncpol
#ncpol
Reposted
If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄
July 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄
Reposted
The Leandro Plan would have dramatically increased state funding for school supplies. These drives are necessary only because the NC General Assembly is violating a court order to fund the Plan.
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
How to donate school supplies for Triangle area public schools
Nonprofits are hosting school supply drives to support public schools. See where to donate to help supply teachers and students in Wake, Durham and Chapel Hill-Carrboro.
www.wunc.org
July 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The Leandro Plan would have dramatically increased state funding for school supplies. These drives are necessary only because the NC General Assembly is violating a court order to fund the Plan.
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro
#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro