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Included in Buncombe County Schools’ 2021-22 budget request was $78,154 for a 340% wage increase for board members. BCS Superintendent Tony Baldwin told the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners during the May 10 budget meeting the raise will be the board’s first since the late 1980s.
Baldwin did not say why board members’ stipends have not gone up in three decades. School board chair Ann Franklin said the board’s pay hadn’t even been evaluated since the 80s.
“Why now? Well I’m not a board member, but I’m a superintendent that is working through COVID. Needless to say, stresses have come,” Baldwin said. “Certainly, I think, (the raise) would highlight the importance and responsibility that comes to those board members.”
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New Hanover County parents are pushing back against the school district and the state for new equity initiatives, calling them part of an agenda to bring critical race theory into schools.
Critical race theory was developed in the 1970s as a way of looking at the context of the law when analyzing racial justice. It establishes that white supremacy and systemic racism is a part of everyday life and and states that while that racism is something people of color experience on a daily basis, it s unlikely to be eradicated because it benefits the white elite.
School districts nationally have seen a conservative pushback against equity teachings with critical race theory at the core of the opposition. In Texas, legislators went as far as to advance a bill that would ban critical race theory in schools.