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Air Date :January 29, 2012 Program Number :692

No delay of May 8th primaries
Marriage amendment campaign begins
Early education pays
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I would like to comment on this matter as I do not feel like Bev Perdue is considering all children in NC as she argues so hard about this issue.

I disagree with the recent ruling of Judge Manning regarding the More at Four program in NC. I am having a hard time understanding why a program that is not available to all children in North Carolina would be housed under NC Dept. of Education and not Dept. of Health and Human services. As this program serves lower income families and Pre-K education is not guaranteed or required for all children- why should our already cash strapped dept. of education have this responsibility. This program does seem more like other welfare issues such as AFDC and WIC and would be more appropriately housed under social services as they are the ones that determine eligibility. I do not agree with education tax dollars going to pay for programs that are not available to every single child in NC. If this program is under Department of Ed - it would need to be opened up to every child rich, poor or in between. There are many families that make just over the income eligibility for this and they can not afford day care or pre-k for their children. I am still waiting for someone to explain to me how being poor puts a child at any more of a disadvantage for being educated than any other child. Please have someone in our governors office explain why a lower income child needs early education any more than a child of someone that makes above the level but not enough to afford adequate day care??? I feel that all head starts should not have any connection to NC public schools and the pre-k programs that are currently run through the public school systems should be for special needs kids not poverty level. As a parent that is in the group barely scraping by but not eligible for pre-k it falls to me to prepare my child for school- poverty level parents have the exact same ability as I do to do the same.

In closing I guess my main point is that while all children are not guaranteed assistance from Social Services - all children should be getting an equal education and why should some 4 year olds have the benefit of additional early education and others sit at home or with baby sitters going uneducated because there parents can't afford pre-k but don't qualify for a state run program.

Thank you for allowing me to voice my opinion on this matter.

posted by Kimberly Raper on 8.24.11

not a very balanced look at malpractice reform-
posted by on 4.11.11

I watched with great interest the NC Spin coverage of H448 the "NC Constitutional Tender Act." I was disappointed that apparently not one of the five panelists had actually read the bill prior to discussing it. John Hood was the closest to knowing what was in it, but even he mistakenly said that it focused on paying taxes in bullion, demonstrating that he was working from a briefing and not from the actual bill.

House Bill 448 contains no provisions for making currency of any sort, nor does it mention paying taxes at all. It merely recognizes Article 1 Section 10 of the US Constitution as applicable in the State of NC, and establishes a specie registry for the safekeeping of retirement accounts that choose to hold bullion, and merchants who choose to accept it.

HB 448 itself is very short, and not at all complicated to read. I invite you, along with every citizen in NC to actually read it for yourselves to separate the facts from the spin.

Thank you for taking time to cover this bill, even if that coverage was fundamentally in error.

posted by Representative Glen Bradley on 4.11.11

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