with the NC ‘education’ system so way overbloated with employees and expense, along with the evil NCAE, the teachers’ union, CUTS MUST BE MADE everywhere within all systems of the NC state employees realm!  Its all overbloated!

Reply to UnAffilliated Voter (sic) above:

Dear Mr. Caudle,

You apparently won’t take your ideological blinders off to ever admit that the NCAE is not a Union, but a Professional Association that by law cannot strike or collectively bargain for its members.

For three years NC state funding for education has been cut in order to stay within a constitutionally mandated balanced budget, and adjust to revenue reductions caused by the Recession that began in 2007. 

Large cuts were torn by the Republican legislature from NC public school, community college, and university budgets last year, in order to cut $.01 (1 cent) of the NC sales tax and cut state corporate taxes. 

I would gladly contribute my $100.00 to be added to my fellow citizens taxes to have kept our public schools above Mississipi and South Carolina in per pupil funding. We the people, cannot afford to gut public investments in our future productivity.

Who would have imagined that Mississippi and South Carolina might know something that NC Republicans don’t, that continuously-improving public schools are the economic backbone of a state.

#Unaffiliated Voter (sic)

NCAE is not a union, cannot collectively bargain, or strike. That is a fact, which you are wrong about in your diatribe. IMHO, your opinions about public education are deeply flawed as well. We need to strive to be smarter than an ideologue.