The Senate just passed a bill to expand Opportunity Scholarships. Every Democrat but one voted no. The same people who claim to care about "equity" don't want low-income kids to attend private schools reserved for the wealthy. We should fund students, not systems. #ncpol
Philip Berger
@SenatorBerger · NC · S
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Excited to hear President Trumps announcement that North Carolina will receive 3,150,000 rapid point-of-care tests from the federal government, free of charge. Hoping that @NC_Governor will use these to help reopen businesses & schools in the state. #ncpol #NCGA https://t.co/JZ1pdL7bRh
The school reopening bill that @NC_Governor just vetoed passed the legislature with bipartisan supermajorities. Education policy should be driven by the best interests of children, not the far-left @NCAE. We will bring an override vote to the floor. #ncpol https://t.co/rKZXpNjlx9
To those who say Critical Race Theory isn't in NC schools: The state's largest school district apparently paid $25k to leading CRT proponent Ibram X. Kendi for an event just last week. #ncpol https://t.co/y7sUWU1pTB
Meanwhile, the virtual charter schools, which @NC_Governor-controlled Board of Education prohibited from expanding, are fully up and running. The consequences of the State Board choice to deny additional educational opportunities are already on full display. #ncpol https://t.co/nUDOfpP6lN
We're looking at a generation of lost potential. We can begin recovering from this disaster by overriding @NC_Governor's veto of the school reopening bill. With teacher vaccinations in full swing, there is no excuse to forbid schools from fully operating in person. #ncpol https://t.co/huOFL56uRo
Gov. Coopers plan gets students halfway to where they need to be. But much like jumping over a creek, halfway doesnt cut it. The @NC_Governor's plan makes worse the very inequities a public school system is supposed to resolve... #ncpol https://t.co/DPD5wUjlz5
To say that a bipartisan group of 37 state senators, representing 3/4ths of the people of NC, would support a budget that "drops an atomic bomb" on public education is hyperbolic nonsense. #ncpol https://t.co/FD21lmkZL9
NC's largest newspaper today called school choice a "scam." The prominent Democrats they called upon to kill Opportunity Scholarships sent their own kids to private school. Denying kids of less means the same opportunity is pure hypocrisy. #ncpol https://t.co/whuLqqbG41
In-person instruction is absolutely critical for student success. Gov. Cooper's decision to exclude an option for full, in-person instruction will worsen inequities we expect our public schools to help mitigate. https://t.co/BUhj0J8SP6