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The legislature returned last week to resume work on the state budget. It has been announced that this will be completed sometime after September 11th. We continue to meet with them to push our priorities, and will report back once the document becomes official. As a reminder, there were significant differences in pay for educators in the House and Senate budgets. These differences can be viewed in the reports given in April and May by PENC. We have met with both House and

Breakdown of Senate Budget Last week, the North Carolina Senate released its version of the state budget. This brings us closer to having a state budget. We now have all three budgets for consideration for us to read and compare. The Senate Budget was not friendly to public education and salaries. They did include the Opportunity Scholarship, and added revisions that commit to more funding and remove income caps for qualification. This was not a surprise considering that both

May 11, 2023 Legislative Update The North Carolina General Assembly continues to carry on with the 2023 Session; this past week was Crossover. So far, we have seen the House version of the budget, and now they have completed Crossover by moving all the bills out of its respective chamber to the opposite chamber. Even though this is a deadline for bills to be heard, there are many other ways to move legislation. Good examples of other ways to move legislation would be by using