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Once seen as a regional model of progressive education policy, a succession of unfortunate occurrences has severely damaged our public education system. Activists now fight against difficult odds for the change students need most.  \nShift of Political Power to Republicans and Impact on North Carolina Education  \nPolicy  \nLike many states, North Carolina was hit hard by the Great Recession and saw funding cuts that greatly impacted our schools. However, the nightmare for our public schools began in earnest in November 2010 when the Republican Party won control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives (Mildwurf & Browder, 2010) in North Carolina’s state legislature. The following year, Republicans gerrymandered electoral districts (Ballotpedia, n.d.a) to ensure they’d be able to hold onto power for the next decade and then set their veto-proof majority to work passing regressive education policies with no opposition.  \nThe policies included significant de-professionalization of the teaching profession in North Carolina through revoking career status protection (Public Schools First NC, 2017) for teachers, terminating advanced degree compensation (Kiley, 2013), and eliminating retiree health care benefits (Bonner, 2017) . The GOP majority lifted the cap (Leslie, 2011) on charter schools, worsening economic and racial segregation across the state given that charters serve an increasingly white population (Nordstrom, 2018) . The legislature directed a billion dollars (Wagner, 2019) over a decade to voucher programs, despite the fact that the schools participating in the program were not required to report on student achievement (Public Schools First NC, 2019) . Additionally, the legislature cut thousands of teacher assistants (Campbell & Bonner, 2015) and created a school report card system, in which school ratings were highly correlated with levels of poverty (Henkel, 2016) . Finally, state legislators passed a K–3 reading initiative (North Carolina  \n1 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: Justin Parmenter. Email: [justin.parmenter@hotmail.com](justin.parmenter@hotmail.com)  \nBerkeley Review of Education Vol. 9 No. 2  \nParmenter  \nDepartment of Public Instruction, n.d.), which promised to improve results through increasing assessment volume and threatening our most vulnerable students with grade retention. And when K–3 reading achievement got worse, legislators added financial payfor-performance incentives (Clark, 2016) based on questionable value-added data.  \nMany of these harmful initiatives were passed in budget bills rather than being moved through deliberative committee processes, eliminating the debate and public input so essential to the creation of effective policy. In addition to promoting a neoliberal education reform agenda, North Carolina’s lawmakers passed massive tax cuts favoring corporations and wealthy individuals, which have taken $3.6 billion in potential annual revenue (Sirota, 2019) off the table, all but ensuring schools will struggle for adequate resources for the foreseeable future.  \nIn North Carolina’s 2016 general election, Republican Mark Johnson ","cbCainCnZ2OkJi2y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainCnZ2OkJi2y","pdf",213200,"English","# Shift of Political Power to Republicans and Impact on North Carolina Education\n## Policy\n# Unchecked Accountability","[{\"question\":\"What political shift does the article describe as a turning point for North Carolina education?\",\"answer\":\"It describes Republicans winning control of the state Senate and House in 2010, followed by actions such as gerrymandering and using a veto-proof majority to pass regressive education policies.\"},{\"question\":\"Which education policies does the article link to harm in North Carolina’s public schools?\",\"answer\":\"It cites measures that reduce teacher career protections and benefits, eliminate advanced degree compensation, expand charter schools, fund voucher programs without achievement reporting, and create report card ratings correlated with poverty.\"},{\"question\":\"How did educators respond to the situation, according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"North Carolina educators organized a Day of Action on May 16, 2018, closing schools for more than one million students and marching to the state legislature for better funding, with the superintendent showing little support.\"}]","In North Carolina, Education Activists Face an Uphill Battle | PDF",1792080077]