Who’s Getting an Education?
2013-03-01 - by
What did we learn during the Republican legislature’s “Education Week”? That North Carolina ranks 48th in education spending.
Legislative leaders bragged that this was the first time all school superintendents were invited to tell the legislature their concerns. The superintendents promptly warned against taking more money from the public schools and giving it to private schools. Which the legislature is going to do anyway.
What will the quintessential swing voter – a moderate woman and mother living in the suburbs of North Raleigh – think?
She doesn’t like Governor McCrory raising his Cabinet’s salaries while cutting assistance for people who can’t find jobs. She doesn’t like raising taxes on working people at the bottom while cutting taxes for people at the top. She doesn’t like blocking half a million people from getting Medicaid and health care.
Now she sees the public schools at risk.
Rep. John Blust, R-Guilford, warned his party about hubris Thursday, although he was talking about another bill – the Great Boards and Commissions Power Grab.
Blust said: “I don’t like this idea, ‘Well, we have the power, let’s go ahead and do it.’ Just because we have power we need to be judicious with it. I wish we would be more careful with it. The people have the right to yank us in two years and put someone else in.”
The question is whether Democrats have the will and the wherewithal to exploit this rush to the right.
Who’s Getting an Education?
2013-03-01/
What did we learn during the Republican legislature’s “Education Week”? That North Carolina ranks 48th in education spending.
Legislative leaders bragged that this was the first time all school superintendents were invited to tell the legislature their concerns. The superintendents promptly warned against taking more money from the public schools and giving it to private schools. Which the legislature is going to do anyway.
What will the quintessential swing voter – a moderate woman and mother living in the suburbs of North Raleigh – think?
She doesn’t like Governor McCrory raising his Cabinet’s salaries while cutting assistance for people who can’t find jobs. She doesn’t like raising taxes on working people at the bottom while cutting taxes for people at the top. She doesn’t like blocking half a million people from getting Medicaid and health care.
Now she sees the public schools at risk.
Rep. John Blust, R-Guilford, warned his party about hubris Thursday, although he was talking about another bill – the Great Boards and Commissions Power Grab.
Blust said: “I don’t like this idea, ‘Well, we have the power, let’s go ahead and do it.’ Just because we have power we need to be judicious with it. I wish we would be more careful with it. The people have the right to yank us in two years and put someone else in.”
The question is whether Democrats have the will and the wherewithal to exploit this rush to the right.