North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction

The North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction is one of the constitutional offices of the state of North Carolina . He oversees the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and oversees the state's public school system.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction is a member of the North Carolina Council of State , elected every four years by the eligible North Carolina population. The office was originally created in 1852 as "General Superintendent of Common Schools". At the time you were still appointed to office and not elected. At the end of the Civil War , the office was abolished and restored as an electoral office under the North Carolina Constitution of 1868.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction is also a member of the North Carolina State Board of Education - a committee that has the most authority over elementary and secondary education in the state.

The acting Superintendent of Public Instruction is Mark Johnson .

List of North Carolina Superintendents of Public Instruction

#	General Superintendent of Common Schools	Term of office
1	Calvin H. Wiley	1853-1866

The office of General Superintendent of Common Schools was abolished in North Carolina in 1866 and restored as Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1868.

#	Superintendent of Public Instruction	image	Term of office	Party affiliation
2	Samuel S. Ashley		1868-1871	republican
3	Alexander McIver		1871-1873
4th	Kemp P. Battle		1873
5	Alexander McIver		1873-1875
6th	Stephen D. Pool		1875-1876	democrat
7th	John Pool		1876-1877	republican
8th	John C. Scarborough		1877-1885	democrat
9	Sidney M. Finger		1885-1893	democrat
10	John C. Scarborough		1893-1897	democrat
11	Charles H. Mebane		1897-1901	republican
12	Thomas F. Toon		1901-1902	democrat
13	James Y. Joyner		1902-1919	democrat
14th	Eugene C. Brooks		1919-1923	democrat
15th	Arch T. Allen		1923-1934	democrat
16	Clyde A. Erwin		1934-1952	democrat
17th	Charles F. Carroll		1952-1969	democrat
18th	A. Craig Phillips		1969-1989	democrat
19th	Bob Etheridge		1989-1996	democrat
20th	Michael E. Ward		1997-2004	democrat
21st	Patricia N. Willoughby		2004-2005
22nd	June Atkinson		2005-2016	democrat
23	Mark Johnson		since 2017	republican

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Constitution of North Carolina, Article III, Paragraph 7 ( Memento of the original of March 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Chapter One - The Beginning of North Carolina's Public Schools & The Literary Fund , North Carolina State Board Of Education
3. ^ Chapter Two - Rebuilding After the Civil War, the Compulsory Attendance Act & the School Machinery Act , North Carolina State Board Of Education

Web links

• North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction website