Resources
Pastors for North Carolina event and seminar archive
Check out our collection of videos and resource links from our public outreach events and educational seminars.
Prayer Vigil for Public Education
8-30-2022
Media coverage:
NC Supreme Court hears Leandro school funding lawsuit | Raleigh News & Observer
NC Supreme Court considers Leandro education plan funding – ABC11 Raleigh-Durham
Advocates speak out for education funding before Leandro arguments
In Leandro education case, a question lingers: Who has final say on funds and fixes?
NC justices weigh who has school spending authority | CBS 17
INTERVIEW: Mobilizing faith communities for public schools
8-29-2022
Rev. Suzanne Parker Miller of Pastors for North Carolina Children discusses the Leandro plan and mobilizing the faith community to advocate for our public schools
by Clayton Henkel, NC Newsline
August 29, 2022
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Investing in Education and the Leandro Court Case - Education Matters
8-14-2022
How the Leandro Plan advances equity in our public schools
5-22-2022
What the Leandro Plan Means for Rural South Central NC
5-23-2022
Our Faith - Our Children - Our Public Schools
NC Conference of The United Methodist Church
8-14-2022
Making Our Voices Heard: Voting and Advocacy for Equitable Education
5-3-2022
The Moral Imperative to Fund the Leandro Plan
10-12-2021
Articles
General Information
Effective And Equitable: Creating A Shared Vision of NC Schools
Stymied by Segregation: How Integration Can Transform NC Schools
Education Without Barriers: Addressing the Needs of NC’s English Learning Students
Don’t Send Public Money to Unaccountable Private Schools
The Unraveling: Poorly-Crafted Education Policies Are Failing NC Children
The Facts on Charter Schools Fact Sheet
A-F School Performance Grades Fact Sheet
The Facts About School Vouchers Fact Sheet
What and who are fueling the movement to privatize public education — and why you should care by Valerie Strauss
There is a movement to privatize public education in America. Here’s how far it has gotten by Valerie Strauss
NC School District’s by Educational Opportunity (and related research)
Leandro v. State of North Carolina and the Leandro Plan
Books
All Our Children: The Church’s Call To Address Education Inequality ed. by Lallie Lloyd
Educating All God’s Children: What Christians Can–And Should Do–To Improve Public Education For Low-Income Kids by Nicole Baker-Fulgham
Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance To Privatization and The Fight To Save America’s Public Schools by Diane Ravitch
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools by Diane Ravitch
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision Making by Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, and Adam Swift
Podcasts
Nikole Hannah-Jones on This American Life: “The Problem We All Live With-Part One”
Nikole Hannah-Jones on This American Life: “The Problem We All Live With-Part Two”
A Conversation with Emily Hanford About Reading Instruction in the U.S.
Emily Hanford on APM: Hard Words: Why Aren’t Kids Being Taught To Read?
Church/ Denominational Resources
A Litany for Education by the National Council of Churches
Episcopal Church USA: All Our Children Monthly Webinar Library
United Church of Christ: Justice In Public Education
United Church of Christ Poverty and Public Education
United Methodist Social Principals to Support Public Education
United Methodist Congregations for Children (C4C)
United Methodist Advocating for Public Schools (UMAPS)
National Council of Churches Committee on Public Education and Literacy