Article snippet: Wake County has a population of one million, and includes all of the city of Durham and most of the city of Raleigh. “Wake County Manager David Ellis presented his 2020 budget recommendation to the Wake County Board of Commissioners Monday night that would include a nearly 10 percent property tax increase,” WRAL reported earlier this month. As ABC 11 reported, a contentious Wake County Commission meeting was held last week where that proposal was up for public discussion: The North Carolina #RedforEd group, which along with the North Carolina Association of Educators sponsored the May 1 rally at the State Capitol in Raleigh which drew 15,000 teachers who walked out of classes to lobby for more state money, has not formally taken a stance on the Wake County local property tax increase, but the crowd was comprised of a number of Wake County #RedforEd members, as ABC’s Joel Brown noted in this tweet: As Breitbart News reported in February: State governments provide about 49 percent of public school funding, local governments provide about 43 percent, and the federal government provides about 8 percent. Until now, applying political pressure to local school boards has been a secondary, sporadically used and informal tactic by the #RedforEd movement, which has focused most of its organizational efforts on lobbying state legislatures for more state funding of education. But now, as many state legislatures are ending their legislative sessions, and local school boards... Link to the full article to read more