As a lifelong teacher, I had to shake my head
as I reviewed what I had ripped from the headlines

1. A North Carolina teacher’s income is so low that her two young daughters, ages 1 and 3, qualify for Medicaid. ..  “We never wanted to live in luxury,” she wrote. “We did, however, hope to be able to take our little girls out for an ice cream or not wonder where we will find the gas money to visit their grandparents.”  Read more here

2. 80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator: Why I Am Going to Risk Arrest Today... “I devoted my entire career to making sure that all of our children get the very best education possible, and I am willing to be arrested today to make my voice heard to the North Carolina General Assembly.”

3. Rodney Ellis, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, pulled a new toothbrush from his pants pocket as evidence of his commitment to stay overnight in protest of the cuts to public education. But General Assembly police closed the building at about 7:15 p.m. and arrested Ellis and more than 70 others who refused to leave.Read Whole Story

4.  Protester Arrests Hit 900...More than 100 protesters, two-thirds of them women, were arrested Monday at the 11th consecutive weekly rally on the grounds of the North Carolina sta...

5. Legislators have … gutted education funding, approved fracking, and, most recently, raised taxes on the poorest North Carolinians with only 25 minutes of debate....Though voter rights was the theme of the demonstration, many of the protesters rallied against the $20.6 billion spending plan released by Senate and House budget writers on Sunday night. The budget proposal takes a giant step toward the privatization of education…Read more here:

ASHEVILLE RESPONSE: TEACHERS TAKE BUS TO RALEIGH TO JOIN THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS