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Apparently, over 50 business leaders filed a statement urging the NC Supreme to back a judge’s order to fund the Leandro plan.
And that’s good.
Here’s a twitter feed from Keung Hui, the education reporter from the News & Observer.
Here’s a link to the amicus brief.
A list of the business leaders who signed is at the end of this post. And yes, this is a good move.
In an election year.
But in North Carolina, this lack of fully funding public education has been a decades long situation.
From the News & Observer this past spring:
Where was this amicus brief in 1994?
Where was this amicus brief in 1997?
Where was this amicus brief in 2004?
Where was this amicus brief in the 18 years since?
What has happened since then is the lowering of corporate taxes and the stagnation of per pupil expenditure. Lisa Godwin, an NC Teacher of the Year stated this:
It amazes me too. Especially the timing of this “advocacy” brief.
Here’s the list:
Adam Abram
Chairman, James River Group Holdings, Ltd.
Sepi Asefnia
President & CEO, Sepi Engineering, Inc.
Chair, NC Chamber
James Babb
Former President & CEO, Jefferson Pilot Communications
Rye Barcott
Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Double Time Capital
Ronald J. Bernstein
Retired CEO, Liggett Vector Brands
Crandall Bowles
Former Chair & CEO, Springs Industries
Erskine Bowles
Co-Founder, Carousel Capital
President Emeritus, University of North Carolina
Thomas W. Bradshaw, Jr.
Retired Managing Director, Citigroup
Former Chair, NC Citizens for Business & Industry (now NC Chamber)
Former Chair, Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
Former Chair, Public School Forum of North Carolina
John R. Bratton
Director, Wake Stone Corporation
Samuel T. Bratton
CEO and President, Wake Stone Corporation
Theodore D. Bratton
Chairman, Wake Stone Corporation
Jack Clayton
President of Business Strategy, TowneBank
Sue W. Cole
Managing Partner, Sage Leadership & Strategy, LLC
Former Mid-Atlantic CEO, U.S. Trust Company
Sandra Wilcox Conway
Former Manager, Excellence in Education, The First Union Foundation
Peter Conway
Founder (Retired), Trinity Partners
John Cooper
Chair, Mast General Store
Don Curtis
Founder & CEO, Curtis Media Group
Richard L. “Dick” Daugherty
Former Vice President & Senior North Carolina Executive, IBM
Former Chair, NC Citizens for Business & Industry (now NC Chamber)
Emeritus Board of Directors, Research Triangle Park
Charter Board of Directors, Public School Forum of North Carolina
Bert Davis
President, 95 Impact Capital, Inc.
James M. Deal, Jr.
Former Chair, Watauga County Board of Education
Former Chair, Watauga Board of County Commissioners
Former Chair, Board of Trustees, Appalachian State University
Clay Dunnagan
Founder and Manager, Anchor Capital
John Ellison, Jr.
President, The Ellison Company
Frank E. Emory Jr.
EVP, Chief Administrative Officer, Novant Health
Ken Eudy
Founder and Former CEO, Capstrat
Jim Fain
Retired Bank Executive
Former Secretary, North Carolina Department of Commerce
Anthony Foxx
Former Mayor of Charlotte
Former US Transportation Secretary
Paul Fulton
Former President, Sara Lee Corporation
Former Dean, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Chairman Emeritus, Bassett Furniture Industries
Founder and Chair, Higher Education Works
Hannah Gage
Former Owner, Cape Fear Broadcasting Company
Former Chair, UNC Board of Governors
Alston Gardner
Managing Director, DGI Capital, LLC
Patti Gillenwater
President and CEO, Elinvar Leadership Solutions
James F. Goodmon
Chair & CEO, Capitol Broadcasting Company
James and Ann Goodnight
SAS Institute
Greg Hatem
Founder & CEO, Empire Properties and Empire Eats
Barnes Hauptfuhrer
Former CEO, Chapter IV Investors, LLC
Former Co-Head, Corporate & Investment Banking, Wachovia Corp.
Melody Riley Johnson
Director, Strategic Accounts, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices
Steven J. Levitas
Senior Vice President, Pinegate Renewables
Elizabeth Martin
Producer, Wild Violet Media, LLC
Easter A. Maynard
Board Chair, Golden Corral Corporation
James H. Maynard
Board Chair/Founder, Investors Management Corporation
Founder, Golden Corral Corporation
Hugh L. McColl, Jr.
Former Chair & CEO, Bank of America
Dr. Bill McNeal
Author (with Tom Oxholm):
A School District’s Journey to Excellence:
Lessons From Business and Education
Former Superintendent, Wake County Schools
National Superintendent of the Year
Carlton Midyette
Venture Capital Investor
Thomas B. Oxholm
Executive Vice President, Wake Stone Corporation
Former member, Wake County Board of Education
Author (with Dr. Bill McNeal):
A School District’s Journey to Excellence:
Lessons From Business and Education
Roger Perry
Chairman, East West Partners Club Management
Orage Quarles, III
Former President & Publisher, The News & Observer
Co-Founder, Journalism Funding Project
Thomas W. Ross
Chairman of the Board, Bausch & Lomb Company
Director, Bausch Health Companies
President Emeritus, University of North Carolina
Retired Superior Court Judge
Thomas R. Sloan
Founder, Sloan Capital Company
Gordon Smith III
Retired Investment Advisor
Founder and CEO, Wood Pile LLC
Sherwood Smith
Former Chair, NC Citizens for Business & Industry (now NC Chamber)
Former Chair, Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies, RTP
Charter Board Member, Public School Forum of North Carolina
Norris Tolson
Retired Business Executive
CEO & President, Carolinas Gateway Partnership
Former CEO, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Former Secretary, NC Departments of Commerce, Revenue, and
Transportation
Richard Urquhart
Retired Vice President, Investors Management Corporation
J. Bradley Wilson
President & CEO Emeritus, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina
Former Chair, UNC Board of Governors
David Woronoff
President, The (Southern Pines) Pilot and Business North Carolina
Magazine
Smedes York
Chair, York Properties
Former Mayor, City of Raleigh
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