2022-23 Budget Petition

Tell lawmakers the 2022 budget harms our teacher pipeline and underfunds our vulnerable children!

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Please reconsider your budget decisions for public education. Please acknowledge all of the hard work our educators do to work productively with parents to create a successful academic program for ALL students. Not giving adequate raises to our veteran teachers is unfair and will just encourage many of our best, experienced teachers to leave the classroom at a time when our teacher pipeline is severely damaged! Giving our retired teachers “a one-time bonus” is not the "cost of living raise” they deserve. A 4% one time "bonus" is insulting given the 30 or more years these educators served our state and its students. Adding more money to continue the unaccountable, unnecessary use of taxpayers money to fund private schools should be stopped. It is unconscionable that the leaders in the NCGA allocated another $56 MILLION dollars for a reserve account for private schools when we are underfunding our public schools. The budget also expands the income eligibility level needed to qualify to about $100,00 a year for a family of four. At this income level, almost all NC middle and low income families with school-aged children qualify for the voucher program that was intended for families living in poverty. Public education, not private schools, are a constitutional mandate in our state’s constitution; they should be our priority. Finally, many of our students and their families do not have access to health care. Expanding medicaid NOW would literally improve the academic futures of hundreds of thousands of children who need health care to address illnesses and chronic conditions that are going untreated. Legislators have the power and money to save and improve lives with just ONE action - passing Medicaid reform! Please recognize that we already have a massive teacher/staffing shortage. If you want to keep educational professionals in our schools, pay our teachers, all of our teachers better, and take care of our retirees. If you want our public school children to succeed, fully fund Leandro. If you want the voters to believe that you value public schools, please improve this budget before sending it to the Governor. Put public schools—our students and educators - FIRST. Thank you.
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Tell lawmakers the 2022 budget harms our teacher pipeline and underfunds our vulnerable children!

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