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NCCARE, North Carolina Community Advocates for Revitalizing Education, is a grassroots organization developed by parents, community members and the Education and Law Project of the North Carolina Justice Center. The founding members of NCCARE were largely graduates of the Justice Center’s Education Leadership Institute, a 30-hour training program that provides participants with knowledge and skills to be advocates for quality education in their local communities as well as statewide advocates for positive reforms in public education. NCCARE continues to expand its membership throughout the state. Funding from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation helps to support the work of NCCARE.Who are we?
NCCARE is made up of parents and community members. We are educators, farm workers, businessmen and women, housekeepers and community leaders. We are ethnically and racially diverse. We have members in twenty counties across the state: Beaufort, Carteret, Chatham, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Granville, Guilford, Halifax, Hoke, Mecklenburg, Nash, Orange, Robinson, Rutherford, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wayne, and Wilson. Want to ensure that your county is a part of NCCARE? Join us. <-[link to membership page] There are no membership dues. All that we ask is that you commit to working for quality education in our state and in our communities
Why do we exist?
In its 2004 ruling in the court case known as Leandro, the North Carolina Supreme Court held that under the state constitution, all children are entitled to an equal opportunity for a sound basic education. This constitutional right to a quality education cannot be denied. NCCARE is working to make sure that the state fulfills its responsibility to all of its children.
What are our goals?
NCARE has two primary goals.
- To reform our current system of school finance to ensure that every district has adequate and equitable funding.
- To eliminate the achievement gap.
What are we doing?
To achieve these goals, the members of NCCARE are working at the grassroots level, meeting with parents and leaders in low-income and urban communities, informing them about their children’s rights. Together with the Education Leadership Institute, a training program provided free of charge to participants by the Education and Law Project of the NC Justice Center, NCCARE teaches parents and others in local communities how to be advocates for quality education for all children. NCCARE is building a powerful movement in these communities which will be able to demand that legislators provide the leadership and funding necessary to turn the promises of Leandro into a reality.
Supporters and Partners of NCCARE:
North Carolina Association of Community Development Corporations
North Carolina Black Leadership Caucus
North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute
Covenant with North Carolina’s Children
Southerners for Economic Justice