AFPENC NEWS

A Look Into The Upcoming Short Session As we await the return of the North Carolina General Assembly for the 2024 short session which begins April 24th, we wish to update you on some ongoing education items and also a look into the upcoming session. As we look ahead to the 2024 short session, we continue to support and prioritize across-the-board salary increases, especially when state employees received 7 per cent across-the-board from the 2023 long session budget. We are ad

A Recap Of This Year It has been an interesting and active year of advocacy on behalf of PENC and our education stakeholders. As the year comes to a close, this is a good time to do a 2023 year-end review and summary.   The long legislative session was approached with much hope that we could promote as many of our legislative priorities as possible. We had open, constructive dialogue with legislative leaders through the PENC Legislative Day and certainly were able to make our

This long session budget process has finally completed. The bill is not yet law, but it will be ten days from last Friday. The delay is due to the governor refusing to sign the budget, but he is not vetoing the document. A bill automatically becomes law ten days after it is passed if the governor does not veto. Let's outline the education portion of this budget. Salaries The final budget did more than we saw in the Senate’s version of the budget, but it did fall short of