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April 1-15, 2010, News Archive
"Can anyone honestly say teaching staff should be cut before
additional layoffs to Facilities Planning, Auxiliary Services or Growth
and Planning?," Luebke writes. "If the purpose of Wake County Schools
is to educate students, shouldn't the budget reflect those priorities?"
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/looking-for-administrative-cuts-first
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/looking-for-administrative-cuts-first
4/15/10 Rewriting school policy proves sticky"Board member Keith
Sutton said the panel should keep in mind the amount of local and
national attention focused on the system's decision to remove economic
diversity as a factor inassignments and replace it with commitments to
keeping students closer to home in stable assignments."http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/15/437623/rewriting-school-policy-proves.html
4/15/10 John Tedesco speaks at Tea Party rally"Tedesco told the crowd
that the reason the new school board majority got elected and voted
against the diversity policy is "because there's an army of people like
you out here today who said enough."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/john-tedesco-speaks-at-tea-party-rally
4/15/10 Slashed budget saves teaching jobs"Class sizes will likely
grow this fall in Wake County, and schools can expect to get fewer
employees and supplies, but it looks as if no teachers or teacher
assistants will be laid off - for now."http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/15/437625/slashed-budget-saves-teaching.html
4/15/10 Squaring school policy with board policy"That is the way it is
supposed to work. Instead, the board has chosen a political route that
has created maximum turmoil and damaged decades of careful work toward
building a policy-driven organization."http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/15/437079/squaring-school-policy-with-board.html
www.wral.com/news/education/story/7448287/
4/14/10 Failure in early grades is judge's new focus
"If this new hearing can spark the same sort of changes at the middle
school and elementary level, it will be a breakthrough educational
achievement for the state."
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/04/13/1372857/failure-in-early-gra...
4/14/10 1,000 in Wake to change schools
"REVERSING THE LACY TO STOUGH MOVES: Parents who had heavily backed the
new board majority in last fall's election campaign were rewarded with
assignment back to Lacy Elementary School."
http://www.midtownraleighnews.com/2010/04/14/2415/1000-in-wake-to-change...
4/14/10 Coalition aims to stop school spending cuts
"The second year of the two-year state budget approved last summer by
lawmakers and signed by Perdue would reduce state spending by $100
million beyond this year's spending. The budget would require another
$80 million in local school district cuts beyond the $225 million this
year in grades 4-12."
http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/7414323/
4/14/10 Green schools may cost too much, Malone says
"If we want a bond issue approved, we have to show voters we're saving
dollars," said Malone, one of four newcomers swept into office in the
fall."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/14/436070/green-schools-may-cost-too...
4/14/10 Mixed message
"With most students entrusted to them, public schools need leaders who
are champions and advocates. That role is undercut when someone in a
highly visible position such as Margiotta's - board chairman for North
Carolina's largest public school system - signals that he is
simultaneously working to advance the interests of a private school."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/14/435882/mixed-message.html
4/14/10 Exclusionary tactics
"They can call it security. They can call it limited space. I'll call
it reminiscent of poll taxes and other tactics that people used to
prevent citizens from participating in the open, democratic process."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/14/435864/exclusionary-tactics.html
4/14/10 Stopping More School Cuts Goal Of NC Coalition
"A coalition called "Fund Schools First" scheduled a news conference
Wednesday afternoon to attempt to send a message to state officials
before the General Assembly convenes next month."
http://news.mync.com/site/news/story/50520/stopping-more-school-cuts-goa...
4/14/10 Education is not the priority
"Every governor wants to be the education governor and politicians in
both parties always tell us that education is their top priority. But
it doesn't appear to be true. The profits of the tourism industry are
more important and lawmakers listen more closely to lobbyists for
hotels and realtors than they do school superintendents and local
boards of education."
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2010/04/14/education-is-not-the-priorit...
4/14/10 Wake Schools considers millions in budget cuts
"Three to five percent less money from the state for next year's Wake
County Schools' budget could mean $20 to $30 million in cuts. Those
cuts include the elimination of 46 vacant positions and 70 filled
positions."
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7385321
4/14/10 Board divided on role of traditional public schools
"Ron Margiotta, who heads the board of the 140,000-student Wake County
public schools system, also serves on the board of an Apex private
school, whose owner says the traditional primacy of public schools will
dwindle under a challenge from private schools."
http://www.midtownraleighnews.com/2010/04/14/2417/board-divided-on-role-...
4/14/10 Reviewing the financial costs of building green schools in Wake
"Could environmentalists be the new group that locks horns with the Wake County school board majority?"
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/reviewing-the-financial-costs-of-building-green-schools-in-wake
4/14/10 Segregation in Mississippi Public Schools in 2010?
"The Justice Department had been investigating the Walthall County
school district for several years, alleging what it called was a
"flagrant violation" of a desegregation court order from 1970."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/segregation-mississippi-public-schools-20...
4/14/10 Wake school board tackles community-based assignment policy
"Board member Carolyn Morrison of Raleigh wondered aloud if "the people in Washington will take a dim view of this?"
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7417647/
4/14/10 Tea Party Supporters: Who They Are and What They Believe
"They're white. They're older. And they're angry."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002529-503544.html?tag=pop
4/13/10 Judge tells Miss. System to halt resegregation: Will the courts tell Wake county or Arne Duncan the same?
". . .it is unacceptable for school districts to act in a way that encourages or tolerates resegregation of public schools."
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/04/judge-tells-miss-system-to-halt.ht...
4/13/10 Fifty-Five years after Brown vs. Board, Mississippi county schools ordered to stop school segregation
"Today, a federal court ordered a county in Walthall County in
Mississippi to "stop segregating its schools by grouping African
American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students
to transfer to the county's only majority-white school."
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/13/mississippi-segregation/
4/13/10 Mississippi school district ordered to end racial segregation
"US District Judge Tom Lee gave the Walthall County School District 30
days to amend its student transfer policy and ordered an immediate halt
to the alleged "clustering" of white students into certain classes in
Tylertown, Miss., elementary schools."
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/0413/Mississippi-school-distri...
4/13/10 New Rolesville high school won't be ready until 2014
"Administrators had warned that switching sites could cost $15.4
million more and delay the school's opening by two years to 2014, a
timetable they affirmed to school board members today."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/13/435383/new-rolesville-high-school...
4/13/10 Rebates, not credits
"Parents who opt out of a community-paid public education for their children need to fund the alternative on their own."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/13/434544/rebates-not-credits.html
4/13/10 Schools targeted
"You get what you vote for and what you don't vote for as well. So wake up, Wake County voters, and smell the coffee."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/13/434539/schools-targeted.html
4/13/10 H6 and professional learning teams on today's board agenda
"Critics of the new board have repeatedly accused them of wasting money
because of the warning from staff that abandoning Forest Ridge could
lead to $15.4 million in additional costs. Supporters of the new board
dispute the change will increase costs that much."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/h6-and-professional-learning-teams-...
4/13/10 John Hood on left's "dumb" school conspiracy theory
"Making allusions to UFO conspiracy theorists, John Hood makes fun of
people who claim the new Wake County school board majority is trying to
sabotage public education."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/john-hood-on-lefts-dumb-school-cons...
4/12/10 Role of public schools
"But the number of contacts between the Wake board's Republican
majority and the conservative interests represented by Pope and Luddy
have led to repeated liberal charges that the board is being influenced
by an anti-public education agenda."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/12/433559/for-schools-a-bigger-agend...
4/12/10 Discussing the impact of community-based schools on real estate
"Sherron has repeatedly said, including at the March 20 Great Schools
in Wake Coalition forum, that the new board's actions are causing
companies not to want to relocate to Wake County."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/discussing-the-impact-of-community-...
4/12/10 Questioning the impact of community schools on East Raleigh
"Silver said that once the zones are in place, people will choose a
neighborhood based on the school as opposed to the amenities of the
neighborhood."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/questioning-the-impact-of-community...
4/11/10 Where parents fit
"While he encouraged parental involvement, he learned that their
concern was directed primarily toward the fate of their own children;
consequently, he realized that acting in the best interests of a single
parent was rarely in the best interests of the school as a whole. The
parents' involvement was transitory."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/11/430409/where-parents-fit.html
4/11/10 Pressing cost questions
"The silence to the questions about cost for the proposed changes is deafening."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/11/430388/pressing-cost-questions.ht...
4/11/10 School board's ideology
"So, with ideology as the driver and an invalid assumption as the
model, the majority is making a decision that will cost the residents
of Wake County millions from lawsuits and, worst of all, will cost
thousands of children a high-quality education."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/11/430387/school-boards-ideology.htm...
4/11/10 Policies ignored
"When sworn in as board members, the new majority pledged to follow the
policies and procedures laid out in school board by-laws. But many of
their recent actions are to the contrary."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/11/430386/policies-ignored.html
4/11/10 No GPS, either
"Before embarking on a journey, one generally maps out a route and takes cost into consideration."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/11/430385/in-the-schools-counting-up...
4/11/10 Classmates matter
"A student's peers in the classroom represent important resources for learning."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/11/430383/classmates-matter.html
4/11/10 Costly school failure
"I came to Raleigh from New Jersey. One big reason the taxes are so
high there is that a huge amount of money is being pumped into failing
schools. It seems no amount of money will solve the multiple problems
of difficulty in teacher retention and poor student performance."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/11/430382/costly-school-failures.htm...
4/10/10 Types of turnover
"This is not the formula for success and should not be our goal."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/10/430405/types-of-turnover.html
4/10/10 Setting Sail
"If neighborhood school parents think they are best preparing their
children for this complex, heterogeneous world by keeping them close to
home, let them consider these oft-quoted words: "Ships are safe in
port, but that is not what ships were built for."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/10/430404/setting-sail.html
4/10/10 Benefits for all
"Yet, when the economically advantaged and economically disadvantaged
interact with each other, both parties often receive more from that
interaction than they give."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/10/430403/benefits-for-all.html
4/10/10 Rush to convert
"Ask yourselves: Did board member Deborah Prickett provide concrete
evidence to overturn the will of the majority of parents, or the status
quo? Did you hear it would improve education? Or did you just defer to
her opinion without investigating the facts?"
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/10/430402/rush-to-convert.html
4/10/10 Scary times
"The world's wealthiest society cannot guarantee, without death threats
to its proponents, health care for its citizens. The state's best
schools now guarantee that income differences are perpetuated in
classroom achievement."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/10/430399/scary-times.html
4/10/10 A new conversation
"Worse still is the "winner take all" attitude of this entire debate.
Those who scream loudest and spend the most in political contributions
will get what they think they want, but the truth is we will all pay
more for a school system in which those who have get more and those who
lack get even less."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/10/430390/a-new-conversation.html
4/10/10 Grass-roots concerns
"Sadly, plain old citizens don't stir up enough controversy to merit
much coverage. But they have spoken up, loudly and articulately, about
the reasons why diverse schools are important."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/10/430389/grass-roots-concerns.html
4/9/10 Why great teachers matter to low-income students
"Teacher quality is the single most important school factor in student
success," the Aspen Institute's Commission on No Child Left Behind
recently noted."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/08/AR201004...
4/9/10 Empty promises
"While this school board pushes its agenda into action, it is actually
ignoring parents, reducing options for families and wreaking havoc."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/09/428362/empty-promises.html
4/9/10 AP test comparisons
"The true message to our community is that there have been no
obstructions to black students, and the AP results are just one more
indication of how large the gap is (and has been for many years)."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/09/428360/ap-test-comparisons.html
4/9/10 Safe from speakers
"That fewer than 50 residents were in attendance at the April 6 meeting
is not an indication of a lack of public interest. Rather, it is a
reflection of the fact that rules were altered and public comment
limited to squelch a healthy dialogue about the future of our schools."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/09/428357/safe-from-speakers.html
4/9/10 Economist and Education Week on Wake school diversity fight
"Both The Economist and Education Week had their takes last week on the
fight over socioeconomic diversity in Wake County schools."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/economist-and-education-week-on-wak...
4/7/10 'Rim schools' roiled
"Amid the drama and dissent over the Wake County School Board's
decision to stop busing for diversity, a small - but growing - group of
parents is fighting to guard something you wouldn't think would need
protection under the current majority: Neighborhood schools.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/07/425276/rim-schools-roiled.html
4/7/10 The education "cap" that we ought to be lifting
"On the question of Race to the Top funding, cap critics are almost
certainly wrong. Indeed, Dr. Bill Harrison, Chairman of the State Board
of Education told a legislative committee this week that North Carolina
received the same number of points in the competition as Tennessee when
it came to innovation and charters. This makes sense because Tennessee
has a comparable, if not more restrictive, charter law. So obviously,
the charter cap was not the deciding factor."
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2010/04/07/the-education-%e2%80%9ccap%e...
4/2/10 The Dangerous Drift Back Towards Segregated Schools
"Two recent decisions by school boards in North Carolina are local
signs of a troubling national trend towards resegregation in public
schools."
http://education.change.org/blog/view/the_dangerous_drift_back_towards_s...
3/31/10 With the Wake schools diversity policy gone, the challenge of drawing new lines
"I'm not saying I'm against neighborhood schools," Brown goes on, "but
we must do it thoughtfully, carefully," or else lose all the
educational benefits that diverse schools bring."
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/with-the-wake-schools-diversity-policy-...
4/7/10 Students targeted for return to Lacy
"The move would send students who were transferred from Lacy to Stough
Elementary last year back to Lacy so they are closer to home, despite
staff concerns that Lacy is overcrowded."
http://www.midtownraleighnews.com/2010/04/07/2361/students-targeted-for-...
4/7/10 A call for at-large seats
"Bob Geary is hoping for some intervention on the part of the
legislature to change the way Wake County school board members are
elected."
http://www.midtownraleighnews.com/2010/04/07/2365/a-call-for-at-large-se...
4/7/10 Tedesco quits job
"John Tedesco, the Wake County school board member who emerged as the
front man in the board's contentious shift toward community-based
school assignments, announced Friday that he had resigned from his job
with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle."
http://www.midtownraleighnews.com/2010/04/07/2382/tedesco-quits-job.html
4/7/10 CMS' budget pain resembles Wake's
"A closer look at the numbers, coupled with a double dose of bad news
in Raleigh this week, shows they have more in common than it first
appeared."
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/04/07/1361424/cms-wake-pain-isnt-a...
4/7/10 Be it hereby resolved: Magnet changes are unusual
"Again, it's not required to hold public hearings before moving
students. It's just customary to ask families first, even if the
outcome seems inevitable."
http://www.southwestwakenews.com/2010/04/07/5390/be-it-hereby-resolved-m...
4/7/10 "Politics" of reversing the Lacy-Stough moves
"Prickett called it "political" that the N&O had run a story that
mentioned the contributions on the day of the board vote. She said the
article gave the impression that "affluent parents aren't supposed to
have a choice."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/politics-of-reversing-the-lacy-stou...
4/7/10 No false misunderstanding at all
"None of that seems to bother the members of the new Gang of Five
majority on the board enough to force them to reconsider their decision
to waste $15 million by abandoning the site for a new high school
against the recommendation of a nonpartisan committee of experts."
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2010/04/07/no-false-misunderstanding-at...
4/7/10 Wake schools' deficit doubles
"Then they found out Tuesday that the district's projected $20 million budget shortfall for this fall has doubled."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/07/425354/wake-schools-deficit-doubl...
4/7/10 Wake board splits on 'integration'
"The diversity issue in Wake County Public Schools is far from
resolved; that became clear when school board members argued Tuesday
about whether to submit a federal grant application that required the
board to commit to integrated schools."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/07/425349/wake-board-splits-on-integ...
4/6/10 Wake school board split over saying desegregation is still a goal
"The Wake County school board Tuesday found itself back in a difficult
and familiar 5-4 split on the diversity issue, this time over a
resolution that is part of a school district application for an $8
million grant to continue federal funding for magnet schools."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7371245/
4/6/10 Budget situation worsens for Wake school system
"The Wake County Public School System's chief business officer says the
school system is facing an additional $20 million in budget cuts, on
top of other money problems."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7367316/
4/6/10 Wake school board to decide reassignments today
"The areas to be reassigned include the home owned by Dana Cope,
executive director of the State Employees Association of N.C. After
Cope's two sons were reassigned from Lacy to Stough, he formed a
political action committee and backed candidates who now form the
board's ruling majority."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/06/423236/wake-to-decide-reassignmen...
4/6/10 Maintaining magnets
"Conservatives have always embraced policies of educational choice for
families, but a strict neighborhood school policy would do exactly the
opposite, limiting families' choices and requiring students to stay in
their neighborhood zones."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/06/423004/maintaining-magnets.html
4/6/10 Marian Wright Edelman on Wake's "dangerous drift" toward segregated schools
"The Wake County school board majority's abandonment of the
socioeconomic diversity policy has now received the national scorn of
Marian Wright Edelman, president of the liberal Children's Defense
Fund."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/marian-wright-edelman-on-wakes-dang...
4/6/10 RWCA requests more committee assignments for Keith Sutton
"The Raleigh-Wake Citizens Association wants school board member Keith
Sutton to have a greater say in selecting a new superintendent and in
developing the new student assignment model."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/rwca-requests-more-committee-assign...
4/6/10 Questioning reversing the Lacy to Stough moves
"Is today's vote on returning the Lacy to Stough nodes a case of
political payback or a righting of a wrong by the old Wake County
school board?"
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/questioning-reversing-the-lacy-to-s...
4/5/10 Preparing for Tuesday's crowd
"This time though, administrators say they're trying to give more
notice to the public. Last time, the news about the measures only a day
before the meeting drew complaints from various groups."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/preparing-for-tuesdays-crowd
4/5/10 GSIW and CCCAAC press releases criticize Wake school board majority
"In the GSIW press release, the group cites a statement released last
week by a group of local and national researchers such as Richard
Kahlenberg of the liberal Century Foundation and Gary Orfield,
co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. The researchers urge
the school board to reconsider its decision to abandon the diversity
policy."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/gsiw-and-cccaac-press-releases-crit...
4/5/10 Tedesco quitting job with Big Brothers, Big Sisters
"Not mentioned in the press release are the efforts by some supporters
of the diversity policy to force Tedesco out of his job at Big Brothers
Big Sisters."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/tedesco-quitting-job-with-big-broth...
4/5/10 Looking ahead: Tuesday's Wake school board meeting
"What is on the agenda includes changes to the current three-year
assignment plan, budget talks, bell schedules and sites for what will
be the school system's largest high school."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7364181/
4/5/10 Morrisville parents want to keep their neighborhood school
"The Morrisville parents WRAL News spoke with Monday said they support
the board's direction but so far, their changes are not giving them a
better choice."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7364244/
4/2/10 The Dangerous Drift Back Towards Segregated Schools
"The sad truth is that the dream Dr. King rightly considered one of the
greatest victories of the Civil Rights Movement-the desegregation of
our nation's schools-is unraveling before our eyes."
http://education.change.org/blog/view/the_dangerous_drift_back_towards_s...
4/4/10 Shaping schools for students who are poor
"Across the nation, the instruction, materials, students' school
experiences and expertise of teachers are of lower quality in schools
serving children of poverty than in schools serving middle-class kids."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/04/418669/shaping-schools-for-studen...
4/4/10 Heed the research
"Yet, every amendment to study research or analyze costs was voted down by the new majority."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/04/418821/heed-the-research.html
4/4/10 Diversity volunteers
"But most importantly it has given our children experience in
classrooms that are multi-national, multi-racial and socioeconomically
diverse, just like the world in which they will live and work as
adults."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/04/418820/diversity-volunteers.html
4/4/10 Perspective on busing
"In my mind students need to have equivalent resources made available
to them in any school, but this is not always the case and
unfortunately the minority schools suffer."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/04/418818/the-diversity-debate-retur...
4/4/10 New CMS zones draw kudos and criticism
"It won't take long for people to figure out that "central" means poverty and for stigma to follow,..."
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/04/04/1354486/new-cms-zones-draw-k...
4/3/10 Tedesco quits job as fundraiser
"Although he earlier acknowledged that opponents of his school-board
policies had contacted his employer and threatened to withhold
donations, Tedesco said Friday that those threats were politically
motivated and those who made them had not donated to Big Brothers Big
Sisters in the past."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/03/419322/tedesco-quits-job-as-fundr...
4/3/10 Partying down
"But the public grew weary of partisanship, and it has not been a
factor on the council in years. So with any luck, and probably to
Pope's dismay, the current mood will cycle out just as quickly as it
cycled in."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/03/419002/partying-down.html
4/3/10 Bad timing
"We'll have five members of Wake's school board to thank when our taxes get hiked to pay for this boondoggle."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/03/418988/bad-timing.html
4/2/10 Students shuffled closer to home
"Lacy, which recently opened a new building, is already at capacity,
and will need temporary classrooms next year to accommodate the influx
of students. Stough is about 100 students under capacity."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/02/417740/students-shuffled-closer-t...
4/2/10 Tedesco leaving job to focus on Wake school board
"Wake County Board of Education member John Tedesco announced Friday
that he is resigning as chief development officer of Big Brothers Big
Sisters of the Triangle so he can "commit full time" to the school
board."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7351484/
4/2/10 N.C. democrats speak out against Wake community schools
"Millions of dollars in federal aid could be sucked out of Wake County
schools if the board of education moves ahead with its plan to change
its diversity policy, North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman David
Young said Thursday."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7348394/
4/2/10 Wake Co. School Board Member Announces Plans To Leave Big Brothers Big Sisters
"In a written statement, Tedesco said he will leave his position as
chief development officer for the organization to focus on his duties
as a school board member and to "honor the public trust" placed upon
him."
http://wake.mync.com/site/Wake/news/story/50175/wake-co.-school-board-me...
4/2/10 Dems jump into debate
"The state Democratic Party on Thursday parachuted into the battle over
the future of the Wake County schools, charging that the
Republican-backed school board majority is driven by "zeal to deny
every student the opportunity to achieve the American dream."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/02/417748/dems-wade-into-school-figh...
4/1/10 Wake early education program facing possible budget cuts
"Any position we lose will mean that there will be children and
families we won't be able to serve," said Project Enlightenment
Director Cynthia Chamblee."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7341447/
4/1/10 April Fools and follies
"Many states without charter school caps did not get as far as North
Carolina in the competition and Tennessee also limits the number of
charters in the state. One prominent pro-charter school group gave
North Carolina and Tennessee exactly the same rating for their charter
school laws."
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2010/04/01/april-fools-and-follies/
4/1/10 Board approves more reassignment changes
"In a work session that lasted nearly six hours, the Wake County school
board approved reassignment decisions Wednesday night that will affect
several hundred students."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/board-approves-more-reassignment-ch...
