North Carolina: General Assembly Passes Budget to Hurt Public Schools and Enrich Charters

"The extremists  in charge of the NO CAROLINA General Assembly won’t be content until they have privatized every school in the state., says Diane Ravitch. Remember that thousands of teachers from across North Carolina took a personal day to assemble at the State Capitol on May 16 to protest the underfunding of public education? The North Carolina General Assembly expressed contempt for public schools and their teachers and passed a budget without hearings that is a dagger in the heart of public schools. It contains plenty of goodies for charter schools and cybercharters.