Sentences with phrase «unfunded class size mandate»
Thank you so much for your continued dissection of the state's funding for teachers and the unfunded class size mandate.
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[Editor's note: In the latest «Education Policy Perspectives» report, North Carolina Justice Center Policy Analyst Kris Nordstrom dissects the chaos that has overtaken North Carolina public schools in recent weeks as local school districts have struggled to implement new and unfunded K - 3 class size requirements mandated by the General Assembly.
«The original class size bill was flawed from the start with an enormous unfunded mandate,» he said in a statement.
Rather than acknowledging the fact that next year's class - size requirements remain a $ 300 - million - plus - untold - capital - costs unfunded mandate, and that districts continue to spend all of their classroom teacher money on teachers, General Assembly members are pretending the mandate is fully funded, and sending out inaccuracy - filled emails to constituents.
They are busy managing the uncertainty created by the General Assembly's unfunded class - size mandate, rather than focusing on their core mission of educating North Carolina's children.