I agree. The money is apparently being spent in the wrong places. I just graduated from UNCW and I am looking for a teaching job. Looks like I will have to leave NC to find one though. NC is spending the money in all of the wrong places. I am tens of thousands of dollars in debt at UNCW from getting certified to be a teacher, and now NC has no job for me. Education is the last place where budgets should be cut. Looks like I'll go to Mississippi or Alabama, aleast they're hiring there. NC will notice soon that they have made a big mistake by cutting education funding. People learn from their mistakes; but apparently the state of NC does not! I have no reason to give anything back to this state!