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Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2016
Issues: Education

NC promised 40% of the lottery proceeds to come back to the Counties for education. This year (15-16) it was 17%. Those lottery proceeds need to be restored and I will introduce legislation to do so.

Common core needs to be replaced. It was a good sounding idea that 46 governors endorsed several years ago. It is a cookie-cutter Federal plan that assumes one size fits all. NC can do better, and we will.

Teachers in NC deserve to have their pay adjusted to competitive levels. We currently are not competitive with most neighboring states in overall teacher compensation. That needs to be corrected. We don't need to blame the Democrats or Republicans, or continue to play that game. It just needs to be fixed, and NC can do that with the increased revenues that the State is experiencing through business and sales tax growth.


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