Would love it if you could point us to where we said that

There's also an appendix with required funding levels for each of the Leandro Plan action steps. This is money that our students are owed, but legislative leaders are instead using to fund tax cuts for corporations and wealthy North Carolinians.

#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro

A reminder that the Leandro Plan can be found here. IF you're writing about education issues, there's a good chance the issue would be addressed if legislators did their jobs and funded the Leandro Plan.

#ncpol #LeadWithLeandro

All we ever said was that late budgets (after July 1) have regularly occurred under both parties

The tradeoff: Legislators won't fund Leandro because they'd rather give tax cuts to corporations and wealthy North Carolinians. NC ranks dead last in school spending as a share of our GDP. The ongoing violation of our students' constitutional rights is what pays for those tax cuts.

#ncpol (4/4)

By not funding the plan, state leaders are violating an open court order. When the SC decided to (unethically) rehear the settled case, they just ended the required transfer of funds from *prior* years. They didn't end the state's ongoing *obligation* to fully fund the Leandro Plan

#ncpol (3/4)

Nepotism/corruption: we're waiting on Supreme Court justice Phil Berger Jr to decide whether his dad, Senate President Phil Berger Sr, can ignore the parts of the constitution he disagrees with

#ncpol (2/4)

It would truly be great to understand why so many #ncpol reporters continue to ignore Leandro. PLEASE let us understand why you don't think it's important! Understanding this will make us better advocates.

(cc @dawnbvaughan.bsky.social)

The budget is due 6/30. Democrats missed that deadline far more often than they hit it: sites.ncleg.gov/library/wp-c...