North Carolina Open Thread

This is the North Carolina Open Thread For Sunday, November 8th.

. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics a place to share their knowledge, insight, inspiration and connections as we work on taking back our state from the extremists. Please join us every week as we try to Connect, Unite and Act with our community of North Carolina Daily Kos members. You can also join the discussion in two other weekly State Open Threads.

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Those of you familiar with North Carolina’s continuing war on education will appreciate this. One of the big stumbling blocks for the 2015 state budget battle was how to appropriate funds for the the state’s Teacher Assistant population within the educational system. 

NC Policy Watch brings this: Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger sure knows how to improve the morale of the folks working hard every day to help students and teachers across North Carolina.

Berger recently told 

NC Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger

a meeting of the education group BEST NC that the 15,000 state-funded and low-paid teacher assistants who are now helping kids learn to read, driving school buses, serving on emergency response teams, giving insulin shots, and doing a dozen other things to help teachers and children and schools are essentially as useless as manual typewriters.

Look for more as we get better aquatinted with DK5. Thanks for reading!