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Opposition
To Tax Credits, Vouchers
Position: NCCBI remains strongly opposed to the diversion
of tax funds to private K-12 schools through tax credits or vouchers.
Explanation: Public schools need continued resources to
move teachers to the national average in salaries, additional funds
for technology, and funding for additional classrooms to meet the
rapidly increasing school-age population. Diverting tax money away
from meeting these needs is not the answer to improving public
schools.
Business and industry
in North Carolina get more than 95 percent of their employees from the
public schools, and the biggest percentage of their tax money goes to
the public K-12 sector. Private schools are not under any of the
state’s accountability measures. Therefore, we will continue to
emphatically oppose this proposed raid on the State treasury.
However, NCCBI does
join the State Board of Education in supporting the continued orderly
growth of charter public schools to give an additional option within
the public school system. Lessons
learned from this nationwide movement should guide this expansion and
the lessons learned should be applied to the traditional schools.
As long as traditional
and charter public schools continue to show the dramatic improvements
in student achievement which were begun several years ago, our
opposition to tax credits and vouchers will remain in effect.
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Early Childhood Education
Teacher Recruitment and
Retention
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Full Funding for Mandates
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Information Technology
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Parental and Community Involvement
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Stay the Course
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Support for Community Colleges
Teacher/Administrator Preparation Programs and
Facilities
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