Alamance County Board of Education - Demand meaningful resources for safe and sustainable public schools!

Alamance County Board of Education

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, our public schools faced the damaging impacts of long-term deprivation of the resources necessary to maintain safe, sustainable, and effective public schools. In order to ensure a complete recovery, please join us in calling on our local school board and legislators to commit to co-sponsoring and voting for a budget that resources these critical elements necessary for our public school students, staff, and communities to thrive.


  1. Resource equity to provide a constitutionally sound education

  2. Meaningful support for student and community mental and physical health

  3. Wages that sustain our staff


To: Alamance County Board of Education
From: [Your Name]

Alamance-Burlington Public Schools employees and supporters urge each legislator representing Alamance County, and each legislator in the North Carolina General Assembly, to co-sponsor and vote for legislation that:

1) Ensures equitable resources for all school districts:
a) Increases North Carolina’s per-student spending in order to more equitably support student learning throughout our state, including in rural and less wealthy districts, by enacting the reforms listed below, and
b) Approves a statewide K-12 school construction and renovation bond that provides Local Education Agencies with much needed funds, and
c) Reduces barriers to student learning by expanding funding for broadband, high speed internet access in North Carolina, with an emphasis on rural, lower-wealth, and communities of color that lack access, and
d) Freezes funding for the NC private school voucher program at current levels until the policy objectives named above have been achieved, and requires any private school accepting vouchers to meet the same academic, financial, and transparency standards as are other institutions receiving public funds.

2) Supports the mental health and physical health of students and communities:
a) Expands funding for districts to hire more school nurses, counselors, social workers, psychologists, and instructional assistants, to support the academic, social, and emotional well-being of students, and
b) Restores state health care benefits for school workers who retire after a lifetime of service to our students, including individuals hired during and after January of 2021, and

3) Provides sustainable wages and addresses pay inequity by:
a) Continue to work towards providing education support professionals with a living wage by guaranteeing a $15 minimum base pay for all NC school workers, and adjusts the relevant pay scale accordingly to avoid wage compression, and
b) Reforms the salary scale to provide a 5% salary increase and subsequent cost of living adjustments for active and retired educators, and to restore longevity and masters pay to improve educator recruitment and retention of experienced educators.