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Save the Date!Join us December 4-6 at the Grandover Resort & Conference Center in Greensboro for the Superintendents' Winter Leadership Conference.
Registration opens September 2. Click here for more information!
NCSSA will be traveling across the state to update our local RESAs and their members. We look forward to seeing you soon!
NWRESA | August 14 CCRESA | December 12
Sandhills RESA | September 13 WRESA | December 13
SERESA | October 17 SWRESA | January 10
NERESA | November 7 PTEC | April 3
"Love per Square Foot" with NCSSA & Moseley Architects
Through the North Carolina Academy to Envision Tomorrow's Schools, many of the state's best teachers teamed up with architects and designers to imagine how K-12 facilities might deliver more student-centered and community engaged learning. Click here to read more.
The North Carolina Alliance for School Leadership Development (NCASLD) and the North Carolina School Superintendents' Association (NCSSA) has announced the selection of Dr. Ron Hargrave, Superintendent of Scotland County Schools, as the recipient of the Dr. Brad Sneeden Leadership Award. The award was presented on Sunday, June 23 at the NCSSA Superintendents' Summer Leadership Retreat in Asheville and is awarded in honor and recognition of a superintendent who has demonstrated a strong commitment to life-long learning, unwavering integrity in leadership and transformation of vision into action.
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Interested in speaking at NCASA's Annual Conference on Leadership? NCASA has launched their formal Request for Proposals for breakout session speakers at the 2020 Conference on Educational Leadership. Proposals will be accepted through Wednesday, October 18. Click here for more information! For the latest news and registration (coming soon!) visit www.ncasa.net/conference.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed into law on Thursday morning a bill which makes various changes to school safety funding, programs, and reporting requirements. House Bill 75 appropriates approximately $38.8 million to implement certain school safety provisions for the 2019-20 fiscal year, and another $29.8 million for the following fiscal year. Out of these funds, $18.1 million in non-recurring funding is specifically designated in 2019-20 for school safety grants, covering safety equipment, community partnerships, students in crisis, and school resource officers. The bill also designates $20 million in recurring funds to supplement the Instructional Support Allotment for 2019-20, to be used to increase the number of school mental health support personnel in each LEA; the bill further designates $23 million in recurring funds in the following fiscal year for the same purpose.
With last week’s enactment of Senate Bill 621 into law, LEA superintendents and human resource directors had breathed a sigh of relief in knowing they can legally employ retirees under either of the following: 1) subject to an earnings cap to work part-time in any school, or 2) as a “high-need teacher” working full-time with no earnings cap or loss of pension when placed in a “high-need school.” However, guidance issued earlier this week by both the Teachers and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS) and the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) created confusion on these options statewide as the Sept. 15th deadline loomed for LEAs to notify TSERS on their plans on usage of the high-need teacher option.
After months with little progress on state budget negotiations, the NC House of Representatives successfully voted on Wednesday morning to override Governor Cooper’s veto of the previously-passed state budget. The final House vote, which split between party lines, was 55 members in favor and 15 members against, out of a total of 120 House members. The budget was then sent to the Senate for an additional override vote, but it was referred to the Senate Rules Committee before any votes were taken. Senate leadership has announced, as widely reported by statewide media outlets, that it will not vote on the veto override until next week. Senate Republicans will need at least one Democrat to join them in order to successfully override the veto.
The North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees (TSERS) has announced several noteworthy changes to the 2020 Plan, as well as an open enrollment period of Nov. 2-19. In guidance issued to the Personnel Administrators of North Carolina (PANC), an affiliate of the North Carolina Association of School Administrators (NCASA), Glenda Jones, NCASA President and PANC Public Information Officer, shared guidance regarding the following items
