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Critical Info About Student Assignment!!!

2-2-12 Presentation on Concerns Over New Assignment Plan 

NEW! 1-30-12 Fact Sheet on Assignment: CAPACITY 

NEW! 1-26-12 Fact Sheet on Assignment: FEEDER PATTERNS 

HOT! GREAT SCHOOLS POSITION PAPER:
New Board Must Take Action to Stop the Largest Reassignment in Wake County's History

1-9-12 Press Release: GSIW Calls for Delay in Implementation of Student Assignment Plan

1-10-12 NAACP Endorses Delay of Assignment Plan 

Assignment Materials: 1-10-12 Board Work Session 

Assignment Materials: 1-3-12 Board Work Session 

Mobile Enrollment Locations to Help Families Choose Schools

Beginning Saturday, January 21, 2012 and continuing through Saturday, February 18, 2012, WCPSS student assignment staff will provide computers and assistance in helping parents choose at select locations in Wake County.

Details on locations and times, along with other community events where registration is available can be found at the WCPSS Web site 


Upcoming Events

All WCPSS meetings are held at the WCPSS Central Office, Crossroads I, 5625 Dillard Drive, Cary, unless otherwise noted. 

Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Board Work Session- Time TBD
Board Meeting- 5:30pm; Public Comment- 6:00pm
Click here for the agenda

Saturday, February 11, 2012
HK on J- Gather at 9:30am, march begins at 10:30am
Click here for details. 

Monday, February 20, 2012 - 4:00 to 7:00pm
Free Legal Clinic for Students - Held by Push Out Prevention Project 
Initiative of Advocates for Children's Services of Legal Aid of North Carolina. For qualifying families with children experiencing academic failure, suspension/expulsion, or other major problems in school.
Where: Neighbor to Neighbor, 1200 S. Blount St., Raleigh 
Come any time between 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Read more to see if you qualifyShare the flyer


Breaking News
 Press Releases
 
   
Critical Information
 Money Watch
 
 
New! NC Association of School Administrators Position Papers
2012-13 Charter School Funding & Policy Concerns
 
 
Diane Ravitch: Hear Her Speech at Duke (10/3/11)
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STUDENT DISCIPLINE
 


 
  • $80K wasted on a parent calendar survey. Ron Margiotta said "We want parents to be polled..." Read more --- Watch video
  • It wouldn't have been a waste if the BOE majority listened to parents, as they said they would. 94.5 percent of families surveyed were satisfied with their children's schools and calendar assignment. Why completely revamp our student assignment plan? Read more
  • More tax dollars for lawyers, less for classroom education...a new request that an additional $25,000 be added to the amount that attorney Kieran Shanahan can bill the school system. Read more
  • Another $5.6 million for the new Rolesville HS site, in addition to dollars lost on the abandoned Forest Ridge HS project. Read more
  • The safest place in town the new Board has spent 31 times more money on security - $14,000 in five-months than the previous Board--including four armed police officers and more than six security officers at a regular meeting attended by fewer than 50 people in April.