N.C. Governor Mike Easley's Teacher Working Conditions Initiative

Governor Mike Easley's Teacher Working Conditions Initiative expands on a pilot project begun by the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards Commission in 2001 and endorsed by the State Board of Education. The Commission adopted working conditions as a priority and through research and focus groups, developed 30 working conditions standards for schools in five categories. The standards were validated by focus groups and by more than 500 teachers. The Commission then developed a survey based on the standards.

In May of 2004, the Governor sent out surveys to every licensed public school-based educator in North Carolina. The findings are available from the 2004 Teacher Working Conditions Survey.

The following organizations sponsored the survey: Office of the Governor, Public Schools of North Carolina (NC DPI), North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards Commission (NC PTSC), North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), PEP, North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT), BellSouth-NC, and the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality.

For a preview of the 2006 questions, click here.