NCAE meets with local educators ahead of teacher pay rally

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A rally was held Friday afternoon by the North Carolina Association of Educators.

The NCAE met with local educators to discuss their plans.

The group says they want five things from elected leaders: more money spent per-pupil, better teacher pay, schools that aren’t crumbling and overcrowded, more school nurses, counselors, and prioritized classrooms.

“Enough is enough,” NCAE President Mark Jewel said. “The North Carolina General Assembly has not been funding public schools. We know that our classrooms have not had textbooks, paper, pencils, resources. We know we have large class size. We have a huge teacher shortage in the state of North Carolina and we’ve got to reverse this backwards trend that the general assembly has set us on.”

Close to 1,000 educators from the Cape Fear will be heading to Raleigh Wednesday.