From class size and teacher pay to charter schools, changing test standards and the common core, public education has been big news of late.
Tuesday night, WFAE will hold a public conversation on the State of Public Education. The event begins at 7 at the UNC Charlotte Center City Auditorium. WFAE’s Tom Bullock will moderate the conversation. He spoke with WFAE Morning Edition host Marshall Terry.
Marshall Terry: Let’s start with the title: The State of Public Education. It sounds a lot like a state of the union speech.
Tom Bullock: Yes, it does, and that’s by design. With all the numbers, contradictory arguments and the politicization of education, it’s easy to lose the forest for the trees. But there have been a lot of changes in education policy over the last few years, locally and nationally. So we’re going to try to dig into these issues to find what works, what doesn’t and what needs to be changed. And it’s a chance for parents, teachers and concerned members of the public to ask our panelists direct questions about the quality of education in our area.
MT: Who is joining you on tonight’s panel?
TB: They represent just about every step in the education food chain. We have the governor’s senior education advisor, the superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools, an elementary school teacher with 12 years experience and the head of a local charter school. They’ll be able to come at these questions with very different perspectives. It should be quite interesting.
