“Whether you currently have a school-age child or you simply care about the quality of education in our state, then voting for candidates who promise to support public education should be top of mind this November.”
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Letter: Taking parental control to the stratosphere
“This is as idiotic as saying the object of education is to expand the students’ understanding and knowledge and should be left to professionals.”
Letter: Delve into reasons for ACS enrollment decline
“We need to look at this problem and determine if the reason for the decline in the population in public schools is due to the filtering out of students to charter schools or if there is truly a drop in numbers of young children.”
Letter: The problem with banning books
“The point of this narrative is that when it comes to having access to various forms of content material that provide knowledge, common sense should prevail over politics and personal bias or belief.”
Letter: Spend public money on public schools
“Any public money to any religious school is completely and wholly unconstitutional.”
Letter: Voucher change would hurt public education
“The end result will further dismantle public education, where learning is already under attack.”
Letter: How can instructional gaps be closed at Asheville High?
“We are hemorrhaging teachers, and I know the administration is in a hard spot, but leaving kids uninstructed is unacceptable.”
Letter: Seek first to understand
“We also have to role model acceptance of people different from ourselves. Florida’s bill is not a ‘gag order,’ as the author presents.”
Letter: Let’s make the new year a new beginning
“Let’s give peace a chance and place it in the school curriculum.”
Some local schools reject COVID advice from health officials
Xpress has identified at least seven local K-12 institutions that are not requiring all students to wear masks as recommended by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services StrongSchoolsNC toolkit and county public health leaders. Some have rejected other coronavirus measures as well, including isolating individuals with COVID-19 and recommending vaccinations.
Letter: How can democracy work without public schools?
“The schools may need help, better-educated teachers, more money for students in every district, not just one’s own, but without some commonly accepted knowledge, how will our nation survive?”
Letter: Public schools deliver more than academic learning
“If we take away support from our public schools, it will lead to wide inequity and discrimination.”
Cooper releases new guidelines for K-12 public schools
New guidance from the state outlines requirements and recommendations for K-12 schools to safely reopen this fall. Plus, North Carolina’s COVID-19 metrics are making national news — and not in a good way.
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ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: Educating our children
“Schools are not waiting rooms for our youths, but an active development of what it is to be human on a global scale.”
Letter: Insist that students receive peacemaking tools
“The time is now to insist our students receive tools that will give them, their families and their world a million times more benefit than would the tools of defense and attack still (sadly) popular even in progressive Asheville.”
Letter: Asheville’s future lies in investing in our kids
“The way forward starts with understanding that the sugar high of property speculation and the accompanying trickle-down lies are not the answer: Up-skilling our kids is.”
Buncombe County Schools Superintendent issues statement on local impact of state budget
Buncombe County Schools Superintendent Tony Baldwin released a statement today, Friday, July 26, about the local impact of the state budget — particularly when it comes to teaching assistants.
