NC budget's education proposals include required arts class and Teaching Fellows expansion

RALEIGH -- Some significant education changes in the new state budget have nothing to do with spending money.

The new education budget presented Friday included a number of “special provisions” that would change policy on areas such as how North Carolina public schools are graded, how teachers are trained and what classes students need to take to graduate.

State lawmakers have historically used the budget to make education changes without including them in separate legislation that needs to be passed.

Changing how schools are graded

The budget would change how schools are evaluated under the state’s A-F school performance grading system.

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