{"id":21425,"date":"2018-05-19T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=21425"},"modified":"2018-05-19T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T07:47:08","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-people-make-gods-gods-dont-make-people-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-people-make-gods-gods-dont-make-people-stop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: People make gods. Gods don’t make people. Stop it."},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

School Workers on the March<\/p>\n

www.facebook.com\/SpectrumNewsNC\/videos\/10156553192252033\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Thousands of North Carolina teachers marched. Now what? Another Arne Duncan Democrat? Really?<\/h3>\n

Their main demand is that the General Assembly, where Republicans hold majorities large enough to override any Cooper veto of their legislation, stop tax cuts on upper-income households and corporations due in January, and to channel more spending into public education. Legislative leaders have promised an average 6 percent pay raise for educators, which would be the fifth in five years.<\/p>\n

Cooper has proposed an average 8 percent teacher pay raise this year, $25 million for textbooks and digital learning and a $150 stipend for teachers who shell out for classroom supplies.<\/p>\n

North Carolina teachers earn an average salary of about $50,000, ranking them 39th in the country last year, the National Education Association reported last month. Their pay increased by 4.2 percent over the previous year \u2014 the second-biggest increase in the country \u2014 and was estimated to rise an average 1.8 percent this year, the NEA said. But that still represents a 9.4 percent slide in real income since 2009 due to inflation, the union said. Read more here: www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/article211311324.html#storylink=cpy<\/a><\/p>\n