Fayetteville: NC State Representative Rick Glazier (D-Cumberland) will visit nine Cumberland County schools over the next three weeks as part of the annual America’s Legislators Back to School Program, meeting with teachers, administrators and staff and will speak to classes about working as a legislator and the legislative process.

Rep. Glazier will visit Long Hill Elementary on September 22, Cape Fear High and Mac Williams Middle on September 24, South View High and Hope Mills Middle on September 29, and Vanstory Elementary, Terry Sanford High, Pine Forest Middle on October 2 and Max Abbott Middle on October 7 (a full schedule is below).

Rep. Glazier is a leader on education issues in the North Carolina House of Representatives, and serves as the chair of both the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Education and the Joint Select Committee on Public School Funding Formulas. He has taught politics, economics and law and advanced American government courses at Westover High School. He has also taught law at Fayetteville Technical Community College and criminal law at N.C. State University. He is currently a Visiting Professor in Criminal Justice at Fayetteville State University and has taught law at Campbell University since 1995.

From the North Carolina Back to School State Coordinator:

Sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures, the America’s Legislators Back to School Program gives elected officials in all 50 states the opportunity to meet personally with their young constituents and to answer questions, share ideas, listen to concerns and impart a greater understanding of the legislative processes.  The program is also designed to build personal links between schools and legislators and provide legislators an opportunity to observe what is going on in schools. The program is designed to teach young people – the nation’s future voters and leaders – what it’s like to be a state legislator: the processes, the pressures, and the debate, negotiation and compromise that are the fabric of representative democracy.  The program is emphasized as a bipartisan event.

Full schedule: