Gov. McCrory calls UNC Board of Governors to action

[octoberlib]

Gov. Pat McCrory told the UNC Board of Governors on Thursday that the status quo is no longer acceptable in the operation and funding of education in North Carolina.

There is a need for better clarity in determining North Carolina’s “education brand,” McCrory said. To that end, the Republican governor is convening his education Cabinet – the leaders of the state’s early childhood, K-12, community college and university sectors – next week to begin to think more strategically about education.


“My goal is to continue to have the brand of our university system be the first rate brand in the nation and in the world,” he said. “It’s going to be crucial to our economic development, but that also means we’ve got to change some things. And that’s not change for the sake of change. It’s change just like the private sector has to do with their customers and their products every single day.”

McCrory did not echo the criticisms of liberal arts programs that he had made on a conservative radio talk show a few months ago. His previous comments ignited outrage among faculty, prompting letters, petitions and an invitation to meet with professors.
McCrory acknowledged that there are “very, very difficult choices.” But he pointed out that in his budget plan, he put the bulk of new education money into pre-kindergarten, which he said is an important investment that should pay long-term dividends.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/04/12/3976959/gov-mccrory-calls-unc-board-of.html#storylink=cpy



Education isn't a business, McCrory and while I have nothing against pre-k, this is an ALEC initiative that has been introduced in other states. It's all about making McCrory's business buddies rich.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. My alma mater... and they're hell-bent on sucking $$ from it and privatizing what they can.

Leeches.

[octoberlib]

2. You nailed it. nt

[zazen]

3. the ed cabinet has been working on this for years

This crap is so f-ing empty. They're already doing the seamless transition stuff, and all they talk about is "strategery," so now McCrory is going in and ordering them to do what they're already doing, so he can take credit for it.

The only thing worse than a Democrat talking about education "reform" is a Republican talking about it.

More smoked salmon seminars at NC Museum of Natural Sciences to peddle the same crap (can you tell I've been to many of these things?). I could write their speeches in my sleep.

[octoberlib]

6. Shame on Democrats for getting involved in this "teach to the test" crap

I didn't know they'd been working on it for that long. I do remember there was a reference to the privatization of education in NC in Bill Moyers' documentary "The United States of ALEC" that came out last year. Obviously some of our Dems are members.

[blm]

4. They want the rich kids to have access to fine universities and the rest to go online

It's GOP cronies who own these companies who will be the financial winners from the push towards online education.

[John2]

5. McCrory and his

crony administration has declared War on the Poor in North Carolina. I'm prepared to fight him with my rhetoric. This is only the beginning. He has cut benefits for the Poor, in order to give more money to his cronies. He came in and raised the salaries of his staff. He is also trying to change the voting system in North Carolina and trying to alter the Justice System in favor of the privileged. He has fired the first shots but he want get the last. North Carolinians should run him out of office and send his cronies back to the filthy holes they crawled out of.