Let Legislators Know Your Priorities!

You can edit the message with your own text or one of the sample messages from the petition page. This will send an email to the members of the Special Conference Budget Committee for the 2025-27 budget.

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Dear Conference Committee Members, As you debate the final budget, I encourage you to consider these 5 things you can do to significantly impact a student’s ability to succeed in school. Please make sure these actions are in the new budget: 1. Improve teacher pay. Teacher pay must be our top funding priority. A qualified, experienced teacher is the strongest in-school predictor of student achievement. Without competitive compensation, we cannot recruit, retain, or respect the professionals our students need to be prepared for college and career in the 21st century. 2. Fully fund NC-PreK to give eligible four-year-old children a high-quality early children education that prepares them for success in kindergarten and beyond. Increase the number of helping professionals in public schools: school social workers, school psychologists, and school nurses. These professionals are vital in fostering a child’s emotional well-being. They provide the support teachers need to help every student achieve academic success. 3. Provide a teacher assistant in EVERY K-3 grade class. 4. Provide meals at no-cost to every student. One in five children in NC live in poverty and face hunger daily. NC’s child poverty rate ranks 10th highest in the nation. By providing healthy and accessible meals, schools can create a more equitable and supportive environment where all students have the opportunity to thrive. Our public schools educate 8 in 10 school-aged children in NC. Surveys show that parents are highly satisfied with their children’s experiences. NC Public Schools are in the TOP 5 employers for all 100 counties. We know that when we support our local school district, we support our local economy. We know our public schools are the best financial investment in our communities that we can make. Please fully fund our public schools. You have sworn to follow our state NC’s Constitution which guarantees every child a free, high quality public education to prepare them to fully participate in our democracy. Thank you for your time.
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