Buncombe County Association of Educators - BCAE

📢 Support Our EC Students & Staff! 📢

Join us at the Buncombe County Board of Education meeting this Thursday, June 4, at 5:30 PM as we advocate for stronger support for Exceptional Children students and the staff who serve them.

We've already won important victories, including administrator training focused on EC scheduling, EC professional development, an additional OT position, and an EC resolution passed by the Board. Now we're pushing for one of our most important remaining priorities: increasing EC Instructional Assistant positions from 7 to 8 hours per day.

If you'd like to speak, public comment sign-up is from 4:45–5:15 PM. BCAE will gather outside at 4:55 PM and walk in together at 5:05 PM.

Come share why EC IAs are essential to student success and why our students deserve the support they need throughout the entire school day.

May 1 was powerful—but we can’t stop now.

The fight for fully funded public schools is happening right now, from the state budget to the BCS budget. We need educators, families, and community allies organizing together to protect funding for our students, especially EC and behavioral supports.

Join us:
📲 Statewide Zoom Meeting TONIGHT at 6 PM
Register here: https://www.mobilize.us/ncae/event/950518/

📍 BCAE Organizing Meeting — May 20, 5–7 PM at the Union Hall
🍽 Food + childcare provided
⏰ Come around 4:30 if you can to eat before we begin!
Register Here: bit.ly/BCAEmeetingMay20

We built momentum together. Now let’s keep it going.

Join the statewide zoom call on Monday night at 6pm to find out what we can do next! Stronger together!

Were you out in the streets on MAY 1? Want to know what's next from here? Join us for our call on Monday May, 18th at 6 pm.

We know that movements are not built in a single day, and to make meaningful change, we have to keep up the momentum. Join us! https://bit.ly/4u5zCqc

We showed up on May 1. Now it’s time for next steps.

BCS is facing major budget challenges, and the fight for fully funded public schools is far from over. Join us May 20 as we organize around what comes next—including protecting funding for EC supports and the staff our students need.

BCAE Organizing Meeting--all are invited!
📍BCAE Union Hall at the Asheville Mall
🗓 Wednesday, May 20th
🕔 5–7 PM
🍽 Food + childcare provided
⏰ Come around 4:30 to eat before we start!

We cannot lose momentum. Our students need us in this fight.

Tomorrow is decision day for BCS.

The Buncombe County Schools Board of Education votes on a budget and staffing plan that will shape our schools next year—what gets prioritized, what gets cut, and how well we meet the needs of our students.

We’re calling on our educators and community to show up and speak out for what matters most based on what YOU have been telling us this year through our listening campaign and EC Forum:
✔️ 8-hour EC assistants
✔️ 6 additional behavior specialists
✔️ Real support for the students and staff who need it most
(See our pinned post for more info!)

The energy we brought to Raleigh cannot stop at the county line. If we believe in Kids Over Corporations, then we have to show up here, too when it matters locally.

📍 BCS Board of Education Meeting
🕠 Tomorrow, 5/7 at 5:30 PM

Be in the room. Listen. Speak if you can. Stand with our students.

This Teacher Appreciation Week, we’re celebrating EVERYONE who makes our public schools work.

From the bus lot to the board room—bus drivers, custodians, front office staff, cafeteria workers, teacher assistants, specialists, maintenance crews, technology teams, administrators, and so many more—you are the heartbeat of our schools.

Public education isn’t just powered by teachers alone. It’s built by a team that shows up every single day to support, nurture, and believe in our students. Together, you make it possible for public schools to serve more than 80% of North Carolina’s children.

Thank you for the care you give, the work you do, and the commitment you bring—often without recognition, but never without impact.

And as we celebrate, let’s remember: our strength is in our unity. It takes all of us, standing together, to protect and strengthen the public schools our students deserve.