Hold on to your wallets! Once again, after the legislature adjourned for the year, they will meet once again soon. They claim that they will be meeting only to override Easley's veto, but once they're in session, quite literally anything goes -- they may consider ANY legislation they want.

For this session, Governor Easley has vetoed a bill that was passed by the legislature that would allow North Carolina to work with other states. However, Easley has determined that North Carolina is better than any other state. Therefore, if you're a schoolteacher and you're rated "highly qualified" by your state, you are not welcome in North Carolina.

The law that was passed would have allowed highly qualified teachers in one state to come to North Carolina and teach. Governor Easley didn't like that. He thinks North Carolina is the only state qualified to determine who is smart enough to teach it's students.

For once, he's actually doing something that he is permitted to do -- states are supposed to be different. But in this case, it's not such a great idea -- since the state cannot find enough people to teach it's students already.

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