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2026 Newsletters

Catch up on past issues of our e-newsletters:

• September 26, 2026 Documenting Discrimination – New Voucher Report!
• September 19, 2026 US Leads in High-Performing Students Who Aspire to STEM Careers
• September 12, 2026 NC’s Special Ed. Funding Shortchanges Public Schools
• September 5, 2026 NC Public Schools Post Historic Achievements & Be a Public Education Voter!
• August 29, 2026 Private School Curriculum Report Update & Private School Resistance to Suicide Hotline Mandate
• August 22, 2026 Back to School 2026!
• August 15, 2026 Does NC Really Need These Constitutional Amendments?
• August 8, 2026 How Much Should Taxpayers Know About the Schools They Fund?
• August 1, 2026 Public Schools: The Best Choice for Our Communities
• July 25, 2026 How Far Behind are Veteran Teacher Salaries?
• July 18, 2026 Are Private School Voucher Programs Putting Students in Danger?
• July 11, 2026 A Deeper Dive into NC’s New State Budget
• July 4 2026 Finally…a Budget & Happy 250th Birthday USA!
• June 27, 2026 Priorities at the NCGA: Veto Overrides First, Budget Later
• June 20, 2026 Public Schooling in America – NC Gets Another F
• June 13, 2026 NO Free Money in the Federal Voucher Program and More Reasons to Worry
• June 6, 2026 Voucher Dollars, Discrimination, and Cult Allegations: What NC’s Audit Could Reveal
• May 30, 2026 Good Bills to Get Behind Now!
• May 23, 2026 NC Legislators Override Governor’s Veto, Advance More Bad Bills!
• May 16, 2026 On the Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, School Segregation is Growing
• May 9, 2026 It’s a Banner Year for NC Voucher-Accepting Private Schools
• May 2, 2026 Teacher Appreciation Week 2026!
• April 25, 2026 What’s in Governor Stein’s Budget Proposal?
• April 18, 2026 How Accountable Are Voucher-Accepting Private Schools?
• April 11, 2026 Leandro Dismissed…What’s Next?
• April 4, 2026 Instead of Enforcing State Constitution, NC Supreme Court Dismissed Leandro Case
• March 28, 2026 Are Remote Charter Schools A Money Grab?
• March 21, 2026 NC School Districts Start Budget Season with Worry and Uncertainty
• March 14, 2026 Does NC Really Need Another Commission on Public Education?
• March 7, 2026 North Carolina is Losing Too Many Teachers
• February 28, 2026 Public Dollars, Private Control: How the Federal Tax Credit Works
• February 21, 2026 Let’s Celebrate Public Schools 2026!
• February 14, 2026 Mississippi Kills Vouchers, Raises Teacher Pay
• February 7, 2026 When Someone Says U.S. Schools Are Failing…
• January 31, 2026 Free Pass for Statewide Virtual Charter Schools
• January 24, 2026 Public Schools Are the BEST Choice!
• January 17, 2026 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day & Disappearing Civil Rights
• January 10, 2026 2026 Must Be a Public Education Year!
• January 3, 2026 Determined 2026 – Join the Fight to Save Our Public Schools!

2025 Newsletters

• November 8, 2025 Challenges Increase for NC’s Rural Schools
• November 1, 2025 Losing the Most Important School Supply – Food
• October 25, 2025 NCGA Adjourns with No Budget, Educators Left with Stagnant Salaries & Higher Costs
• October 18, 2025 NCGA Spending Time on Partisan Maps Instead of State Budget
• October 11, 2025 Why No State Budget? Ask Budget Conferees
• October 4, 2025 Federal Shutdown Impact on NC Ed and a Tip for Our NC State Auditor
• September 27, 2025 Private School Staff Excluded from Required Criminal Background Checks
• September 20, 2025 Veto Overrides on the Horizon, but Where is the Budget?
• September 13, 2025 Where, oh where is Leandro?
• September 6, 2025 Public School Performance Improves, Private School Performance Still Unknown
• August 30, 2025 New School Year Begins with No State Budget, Longer Vacation for NCGA
• August 23, 2025 Back to School 2025!
• August 16, 2025 Making NC Public Schools the BEST in the Nation!
• August 12, 2025 Take Action to Stop Federal Education Cuts!
• August 9, 2025 Public Schools Are the BEST Choice for Our State
• August 2, 2025 Legislators on Another Summer Break, While Public Schools Wait on 2025-27 Budget
• July 26, 2025 Respond Boldly to this Moment: Choose Public Schools
• July 19, 2025 Top 5 Reasons Legislators Need to Act
• July 12, 2025 NC Pre-K Funding Stagnant and Insufficient
• July 5, 2025 Rural Schools Get Hit Hard…AGAIN
• June 28, 2025 NC School Districts Struggle With Budget While Vouchers Grow
• June 21, 2025 It’s Not Too Late to Tell Legislators Your Education Priorities!
• June 14, 2025 NC Legislators Send Mixed Messages on Student Safety
• June 9, 2025 ACT NOW! Let’s Require Private School Educators to Pass Criminal Background Checks
• June 7, 2025 Most Tuition Vouchers Going to Students Already in Private School
• May 31, 2025 Tax-Funded Vouchers Boost Private School Tuition
• May 24, 2025 House Budget Set, The Debate Begins
• May 17, 2025 71 Years Later and State-Funded Segregation Continues
• May 10, 2025 Another Hit to Public Schools–Cutting Math Requirements
• May 3, 2025 REAL Teacher Appreciation…and its Opposite
• May 1, 2025 NC Charter Schools: Undermining Quality Education for All
• April 26, 2025 Budget Generosity for Vouchers & Following Federal Law
• April 19, 2025 Senate Budget Falls Short, Fails Educators and State Employees
• April 12, 2025 Bills We Need & NC Tops DOGE Cut List
• April 4, 2025 Bill Filing Deadlines Bring a Flood of New Bills
• March 29, 2025 Public Schools Face Deficits While Private Schools Profit
• March 22, 2025 The Gov’s Budget, Dismantling Education, & Cutting Math
• March 21, 2025 Action Alert – Help Us Save the U.S. Department of Education
• March 15, 2025 Guns in Church & School, Hurricane Relief Stalls, Vouchers Grow
• March 8, 2025 Bills and More Bills — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• March 1, 2025 With NO Voucher Income Limits, the Rich Get Richer
• February 22, 2025 Celebrate Public Schools Week!
• February 15, 2025 Showing Our Schools Love & A Look at the Teacher Pipeline
• February 8, 2025 Critical Mission: The U.S. Department of Education
• February 1, 2025 A Federal Assault on Public Schools and State/Local Control
• January 25, 2025 Public Schools Are the Best Choice!
• January 18, 2025 Unfinished Work: Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.
• January 11, 2025 The 2025-26 Legislative Session Has Started!
• January 4, 2025 Happy New Year: Here’s Our 2025 Legislative Agenda

2024 Newsletters

• December 28, 2024 Grateful Hearts, Determined Voices: Strengthening Public Schools in 2025
• December 21, 2024 The Education Wars in 2025: Can Public Schools Win?
• December 14, 2024 Another Veto Override: Legislators Fail to Prioritize Hurricane Relief
• December 7, 2024 Dear Friends of Public Education; The Cost of Culturally Divisive Conflict
• November 30, 2024 Hurricane Relief that Wasn’t. Students Lose Rights with NC Vouchers
• November 27, 2024 Thankful for our NC Educators!
• November 23, 2024 Private Schools Won. Hurricane Relief and Democracy Lost
• November 16, 2024 Legislators Want to Spend $616 Million on Vouchers but Have Spent Only $877 Million on Disaster Relief
• November 9, 2024 The Election Results Are In. Public Education Remains at Risk!
• November 2, 2024 Super VOTE Saturday! Last Day to Register & VOTE!
• October 26, 2024 Local Taxes Increasing? Talk to Your State Legislators
• October 19, 2024 Early Voting Starts & Education is on the Ballot!
• October 12, 2024 Disaster Relief On the Way: What Was Funded and What Comes Next
• October 5, 2024 After Hurricane Helene: Rebuilding Our Communities
• September 28, 2024 North Carolina’s Vicious Public Policy!
• September 23, 2024 Governor Cooper Vetoes Voucher Expansion Bill
• September 14, 2024 NC’s School Voucher Program Given Massive Expansion, SC Declares their Vouchers Unconstitutional
• September 7, 2024 ALERT! $248 MILLION School Voucher Expansion Vote Monday
• August 31, 2024 What’s Happening with Private School Tuition Increases?
• August 24, 2024 Back to School 2024!
• August 17, 2024 High-Quality Pre-K Programs Have Wide-Reaching Benefits!
• August 10, 2024 The Priceless Benefits of Spending on Schools
• August 3, 2024 Back to School with Unmet Constitutional Obligations!
• July 27, 2024 By the Wealthy, for the Wealthy: The Coordinated Attacks on Public Education in the United States
• July 20, 2024 Where Is All that Voucher Money Going?
• July 13, 2024 Yes, Charter Schools Do Drive Segregation
• July 6, 2024 Public Education Protects Our Democracy!
• June 29, 2024 The General Assembly’s Refusal to Pay Teachers Better Harms Everyone!
• June 22, 2024 NC Lottery Money to Fund Private School Vouchers! What?
• June 15, 2024 NC Budget Stalled for Educators While Voucher Funding Likely
• June 8, 2024 Vouchers Contribute to Rising Private School Tuition
• June 1, 2024 The Most Important School Supply
• May 25, 2024 Will the General Assembly Drive NC Over a Funding Cliff?
• May 18, 2024 On the Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education: NC Update
• May 11, 2024 Rural Schools Matter!
• May 4, 2024 Can You Justify Welfare for the Wealthiest?
• April 27, 2024 Governor Wants 8.5% Teacher Raises and Much More!
• April 20, 2024 Why Aren’t Corporations Paying Their Fare Share?
• April 13, 2024 North Carolina Has Money for What?!
• April 6, 2024 The Advocacy Issue: Protect Our Public Schools and Our Democracy!
• March 30, 2024 A Glimpse of What’s to Come in the 2024 Short Session
• March 23, 2024 North Carolina’s New Welfare for the Wealthy
• March 16, 2024 Care About the Next Generation? Invest in Public Schools!
• March 9, 2024 Voucher Floodgates Opened and Wealthy Families Rushed In
• March 2, 2024 Save Our Public Schools – VOTE!
• February 26, 2024 NC Abandons Public Schools – 48th Worse in Nation
• February 24, 2024 It’s Time to Celebrate Public Schools
• February 17, 2024 Want to Save Public Schools? Be a Public Education Voter!
• February 10, 2024 Pushing Vouchers with $1,000,000 in State Tax $$
• February 3, 2024 Expanding Vouchers = MORE Tests for NC Public School Students
• January 27, 2024 Governor Proclaims 2024: The Year of Public Schools in NC!
• January 20, 2024 Public Schools Are the BEST CHOICE: Here’s Why!
• January 13, 2024 What Would Martin Luther King, Jr. Say?
• January 6, 2024 Making 2024 a Great Year for Public Schools!
2023 Newsletters
• December 30, 2023 Happy New Year! Celebrate U.S. Gains in International Rankings
• December 22, 2023 Action Alert! Leandro at the NC Supreme Court!
• December 16, 2023 NC Schools Face an Unprecedented Crisis!
• December 9, 2023 Dear Public Education Supporter
• December 2, 2023 Watch Out – What Happened in AZ could be NC’s Future!
• November 25, 2023 Thankful for North Carolina’s Educators!
• November 18, 2023 Got a Poor Track Record? No Problem
• November 11, 2023 Who Has the “Best” Schools in the Nation?
• November 4, 2023 Keeping Our Children Safe: Did Gun Laws Change in NC?
• October 28, 2023 Doing Everything Possible to Deny Adequate School Funding
• October 21,2023 Why Is Legislation Pushing Virtual Schooling in NC?
• October 14, 2023 North Carolina’s Constitutional Crisis in Education
• October 7, 2023 Teaching Pay Penalty: How Bad Is It and Why Is SC Better?
• September 30, 2023 More on the Budget…Education and Secrecy
• September 23, 2023 The Budget is Out… What’s in it for Education?
• September 16, 2023 Still No Budget, but Plenty of Turmoil
• September 9, 2023 Celebrate Public Schools as Gains Continue
• September 2, 2023 Are We Failing Our Educators, Students, and Communities?
• August 26, 2023 Welcome Back to School NC!
• August 19, 2023 NCGA Veto Overrides: More Attacks on Public Education
• August 12, 2023 Back to School NC
• August 5, 2023 Same Tax Dollars: Different Schools, Different Policies
• July 29, 2023 No Budget; What’s Happening?
• July 24, 2023 Action Alert! Uphold Gov. Cooper’s Veto of HB219!
• July 22, 2023 Be Critical Consumers: Charter Schools Report
• July 15, 2023 SB90 Serious Detour from Responsible Governance
• July 13, 2023 How NC Tax Dollars Are Used to Discriminate Against Students and Families
• July 1, 2023 No Budget, But Lots of Legislative Action!
• June 24, 2023 More Vetoes and Veto Overrides!
• June 17, 2023 NC Board of Education Sends Letter to ALL NC Legislators
• June 10, 2023 NC School Voucher Program Allows Discrimination
• June 3, 2023 State of Emergency for Public Schools – NC Responds!
• May 27, 2023 NC’s State of Emergency for Public Ed – What Can You Do About It?
• May 20, 2023 The Senate Budget Shortchanges Teachers. What’s Next?
• May 13, 2023 Does NC Want Another Pandemic in Education?
• May 6, 2023 Crossover Week Was Busy in the General Assembly
• April 29, 2023 Harming Students: The Real Impact of SB406 and HB823
• April 22, 2023 It’s Raining Bills, Watch Out!
• April 15, 2023 Do You Want to Know Where Your Tax Dollars Go?
• April 8, 2023 A Very Busy Week in the General Assembly!
• April 1, 2023 Senate Proposes 33% Teacher Salary Increase (April Fools!)
• March 25, 2023 Bill Expanding NC Vouchers Spends $11.5 Billion of Taxpayer’s Money
• March 18, 2023 How Can Teaching That Slavery is Wrong Be a Problem?
• March 11, 2023 When Legislators Promote Failing Schools and Chase Profit
• March 4, 2023 Removing Charter School Guardrails: Taxpayers Beware
• February 25, 2023 On the Eve of Public Schools Week, More Culture Wars Legislation
• February 18, 2023 How Do We Keep Our Children Safe?
• February 11, 2023 Will North Carolina Public Schools Finally Get Calendar Flexibility
• February 4, 2023 Legislative Action on Public School Parents’ Rights
• January 28, 2023 Legislative Session Work Begins Amid Student Mental Health Crisis
• January 21, 2023 What’s Going on with School Choice in NC?
• January 14, 2023 Legislative Long Session Opens with a Bang
• January 7, 2023 Tackling the Challenges of 2023!