For the Kids. Period. (ft. NCAE President Tamika Walker Kelly)

Send us a message!!! We sat down with Tamika Walker Kelly, the six-year President of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), the state’s largest professional organization for public school employees.

Tamika is an 18-year NC public school educator, a North Carolina Teaching Fellows alumna, and someone our own Chuck Wills knows personally: she taught his daughter. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck went deep on the issues that don’t get nearly enough airtime: the NC General Assembly budget that is 320-plus days overdue.

The “8% average raise” is actually a pay cut when you run the real numbers. School closures are tearing through communities from Martin County to Cumberland County to Chapel Hill.

Why the “far-left” label thrown at NCAE by the Monroe mayor is a misfire. And what it will take to fix an educator shortage that goes far deeper than pipeline programs.

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