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June 16-30, 2010News Archive
6/30/10 Wake schools superintendent's resignation becomes official
"Wednesday was the last official day on the job for Wake County schools Superintendent Del Burns, who unexpectedly announced his resignation in February."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7879899/
6/30/10 Burns departs; rancor lingers
"Del Burns' tenure running the Wake County school system may be remembered more for the way it ended than for the four years he served as superintendent of the state's largest school district."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/07/01/560102/burns-departs-rancor-linge...
6/30/10 What should we do about the Wake schools? Community discussion tonight, 7 pm in Raleigh
"No doubt you've read about Mayor Charles Meeker's displeasure with the Wake school board; Meeker is asking us citizens to help him figure out what his response to the school system - Raleigh's response, that is -ought to be. A lawsuit? A task force? Bring in a mediator? Something else entirely?"
http://www.indyweek.com/citizen/archives/2010/06/30/what-should-we-do-ab...
6/30/10 Churches around state backing NAACP in fight against Wake school board
"We need to be more active, not sitting around twiddling our thumbs while the potential for re-segregation is coming into play again," said the Rev. Marilyn Hedgpeth, an associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Durham. "I hope we have learned from our past not to go there again."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/churches-around-state-backing-naacp...
6/30/10 Wake superintendent search methods questioned
"I think we're watering down our criteria in order to cast a wider net, and I don't think that's necessary," said Keith Sutton who is in the minority on the board. "I think for a system of our size and a system of our stature, we would tend to attract some of the best candidates without having to lower our standard and lessen our criteria."
http://triangletribune.com/index.php?src=news&srctype=detail&category=Ne...
6/29/10 Behind Meeker
"There are serious and lasting repercussions to the board's ill-conceived changes, not the least of which is to your wallet and mine."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/29/556199/behind-meeker.html
6/29/10 Tedesco defends letter mentioning races of ex-girlfriends
"Wake County Board of Education member John Tedesco said Tuesday that an uproar over comments he made about dating black and Latino women is misdirected."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7874262/
6/29/10 Naming debate surrounds Raleigh high school
"Wake County's school board chairman said Tuesday there's been no formal move to take a vote on changing the name of William G. Enloe High School in Raleigh, despite mounting protest and growing concerns."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7877952/
6/29/10 Tedesco's comments called degrading
"A Wake County school board member's decision to invoke his dating history to defend his opposition to the district's discarded socioeconomic diversity policy is drawing complaints from opponents."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/29/556386/tedescos-comments-called-d...
6/29/10 Diversity opponents, here's a civil rights history lesson
"Margiotta gives the impression that he'd dismantle the school system if he could, and Tedesco apparently thinks having a rainbow-coalition love life grants him immunity to charges of racism."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/29/556411/diversity-killers-heres-a-...
6/29/10 Not tuned in
"As a public school teacher, I usually welcome different ideas and different points of view. However, as an educator and native, I am unnerved by the hidebound attitude many on the board majority display in regards to our culture, long-term history and living history. Lately, it certainly feels like "us" versus "them."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/29/556202/not-tuned-in.html
6/29/10 Solid for diversity
"Appointed as principal of Enloe in 1973, I became the first African-American principal of a completely integrated high school in the Raleigh Public Schools. I found a welcoming commitment to the concept of diversity upon my arrival that continued to grow and blossom during and after my tenure, which ended there in 1982."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/29/556204/solid-for-diversity.html
6/29/10 Diversity spurs CMS debate; board tackles student-assignment goals today
"One broad point of agreement in the public forums - and among board members - is that improving academic performance at all schools would eliminate many of the rifts.
"I'm getting the impression that trumps all other issues," Chair Eric Davis said Monday."
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/06/29/1532040/diversity-spurs-cms-...
6/28/10 Below average student spending slaps North Carolina with a low rank
"North Carolina ranks among the worst in the nation in terms of education spending per student, according to a new Census report."
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/06/28/daily2.html
6/28/10 Wake board takes the highest bid
"The Wake County school board decided to spend almost twice as much for a company to search for its next superintendent as it would have cost to hire the next highest bidder."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/28/554910/board-takes-the-highest-bi...
6/28/10 State Education Funding Study Due In Fall
"As school systems across the state deal with the reality of diminished bottom lines, more fundamental changes in the way North Carolina pays for public schools simmer on the back burner."
http://durhamcounty.mync.com/site/durhamcounty/news/story/53125/state-ed...
6/27/10 Board's abandonment
"The N.C. School Boards Association's mission is to provide leadership and services that enable local boards of education to govern effectively. The Wake Board of Education apparently does not like that mission."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/27/551638/boards-abandonments.html
6/27/10 Critical criteria cuts?
"New members of the Wake County Board of Education have vowed to close the achievement gap in Wake County schools by raising the expectations for students. Yet they have voted to lower the standards and qualifications for our next superintendent to lead the state's largest school system."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/27/551639/critical-criteria-cuts.htm...
6/27/10 Tarnishing magnets
"By its words and its actions, the board majority has harmed our magnet schools."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/27/551641/tarnishing-magnets.html
6/27/10 And the inverse?
"I recognize there are some who argue a business person, retired military officer, etc., would be better suited to lead our school system. Please consider this argument's inverse. Would a professional educator be considered a candidate to be CEO of a major corporation or a general if he did not have at least three years experience in the field in the last 10 years? The answer is clearly no."?
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/27/551642/and-the-inverse.html
6/27/10 Fighting the school poverty factor
"But the risk is that schools serving poor neighborhoods almost exclusively will become overloaded with kids laboring to gain the barest academic foothold - not because of deficits in their learning potential but because of their home situations and poverty's stresses."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/27/551749/fighting-the-school-povert...
6/27/10 New or old, Wake school board mostly non-native
"One school board member is a Raleigh native. But the other eight board members came to the Triangle for work and family reasons, mirroring U.S. Census data showing that a majority of Wake County residents weren't born in North Carolina."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/27/553612/just-like-the-rest-of-us.h...
6/26/10 Was criticism misdirected?
"When Mayor Charles Meeker made comments at an East Raleigh Citizens Advisory Council meeting this week critical of the new Wake school board, he also took some shots at his fellow council members."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/26/552145/was-criticism-misdirected....
6/26/10 Margiotta High
"How about we change William G. Enloe High School's name to Ron Margiotta High School in return for his resignation from the school board?"
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/26/551712/margiotta-high.html
6/25/10 Raleigh mayor talks of suing Wake schools
"Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker wants business, legal and community leaders to join him in scrutinizing the Wake County school board's evolving student reassignment plan, setting the stage for a potential lawsuit based on students' rights to the sound education guaranteed in the state constitution."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/25/550665/meeker-talks-of-suing-scho...
6/25/10 Enloe stands on shakier ground
"The school board's policy committee agreed Thursday to recommend ending the ban on naming schools after people. The policy would need to be changed in order to rename Enloe High, a move that would likely draw heated debate."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/25/550562/enloe-stands-on-shakier-gr...
6/25/10 Site for sore eyes
"Here's the irony: While the board's Republican-aligned majority wants to emphasize assignment to neighborhood schools, the high school site those five members favor is, relatively speaking, in the middle of nowhere."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/25/550199/site-for-sore-eyes.html
6/25/10 Enloe absurdity
"I have never seen a group of elected officials who spend more time both manufacturing and inciting political games and theatrics than this board majority. If only they realized how ridiculous they have become. What a waste."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/25/550203/enloe-absurdity.html
6/25/10 Guided by conscience?
"The speakers did not encourage everyone to get arrested. They encouraged everyone to do what their conscience dictates."?
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/25/550202/guided-by-conscience.html
6/25/10 Where it takes us
"DIVERSITY breeds PROXIMITY"
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/25/550201/where-it-takes-us.html
6/25/10 Enloe and integration
"The editorial placed the blame for continued segregation squarely on the people of Raleigh. By the end of the year, most facilities had been integrated. Like Enloe High School itself, Mayor Enloe symbolizes the achievement of racial harmony during the Civil Rights era."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/25/550187/enloe-and-integration.html
6/25/10 CCCAAC to discuss legislative study commission on school diversity
"The Coalition of Concerned Citizens for African American Children will discuss some hot button issues at an information session for the public on Saturday."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/cccaac-to-discuss-legislative-study...
6/25/10 Questioning the level of public input on the new student assignment plan
"They didn't feel they had to respond to us," Meeker said. "A city of 45 percent of the students expressing concern about what they're doing and they didn't bother to send a letter back to us."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/questioning-the-level-of-public-inp...
6/24/10 Raleigh to review Wake student assignment policy
"The city of Raleigh could be getting in the fight against a controversial decision by the Wake County Board of Education to eliminate a longstanding policy of busing students for socioeconomic diversity."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7847772/
6/24/10 Help for students is stuck between old models and new data, consultant tells Wake panel
"It's now possible to gather and analyze data about individual students, Janet Johnson, founder and president of EDSTAR Inc., said, but some regulations remain based on the older system."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7850504/
6/24/10 Wake school board aims for tighter rein on superintendent
"It was clear from conversation among Wake County school board members Thursday that they want more say in the running of the state's largest school district when a new superintendent is selected."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7847759/
6/24/10 Wake GOP attacks Meeker for questioning the values of school board majority
"Wake County Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope Jr. is accusing Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker of making "bigoted" and "insulting" statements about the members of the school board majority."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/wake-gop-attacks-meeker-for-questio...
6/24/10 School board wants more say in the naming of principals?
"The Wake County school board majority wants more authority over how the superintendent handles filling of administrative positions, including principals."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/school-board-wants-more-say-in-the-...
6/24/10 Raleigh mayor organizing potential lawsuit against school board
"We have people who are not from the area, who don't share our values, who are the majority on the school board who are taking steps to have schools that have the majority of well to do people in one set of schools and not as well to do people in another set of schools," Meeker said Monday."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/24/549694/raleigh-mayor-organizing-p...
6/24/10 Wake school board asks for state approval to relocate offices to Cary
"The Wake County school board voted today to ask state permission to relocate its main administrative offices from North Raleigh to Cary."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/24/549659/wake-school-board-asks-for...
6/24/10 The Enloe tradition
"Enloe, mayor from 1957 to 1963, was just the sort of moderate leader who helped the city navigate those treacherous times, when the push for integrated public facilities came to shove."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/24/548459/the-enloe-tradition.html
6/24/10 No to name change
"No, leave Enloe and all other schools alone when it comes to the name and concentrate on the real issues like classroom sizes, teacher and student performance, and the like."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/24/548451/no-to-name-change.html
6/24/10 Norwalk's call to "stop the madness" of the Wake school board majority
"Norwalk calls the recent talk by the board majority about renaming Enloe High School a case of "meanness and spite." He charges it's a slam against Enloe High because it's the home base for many protesters against the board majority."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/nowalks-call-to-stop-the-madness-of...
6/24/10 Enloe High renaming and other issues on today's board agendas
"We've got the Enloe High naming controversy, the relocation of Central Office to Cary and the performance of low-income students on the various Wake County school board agendas today."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/enloe-high-renaming-and-other-issue...
6/24/10 The N&O editorial page gets it right
"It would appear that criticism did not go over very well."
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/06/24/the-no-editorial-page-gets-it-...
6/23/10 Liberals and Communists on the Wake school diversity fight
"In an article today in People's World, the publication also reports on this week's Wake school actions. According to its web site, the People's World is the "direct descendant of the Daily Worker" and "we enjoy a special relationship with the Communist Party USA."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/liberals-and-communists-on-the-wake...
6/23/10 School spat: Meeker and Eagles trade barbs
"Meeker argues that most of the students who will go to the new high school live closer to North Raleigh than to Rolesville, which he says has only a few hundred high school students."
http://www.midtownraleighnews.com/2010/06/23/2835/school-spat-meeker-and...
6/23/10 Closing the achievement gap
"Proponents of the board say they're not hearing any voices from us, and they look at that silence as a form of acceptance," Wright said. "That is one of the challenges in our community, to speak up and not let others make those decisions."
http://triangletribune.com/index.php?src=news&srctype=detail&category=Ne...
6/23/10 Enloe's name caught up in diversity debate
"The suggestion about Enloe drew opposition from a UNC-Chapel Hill historian and from contemporaries who called Enloe a figure of his day who worked over time to shed Raleigh's segregated past."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/23/546957/enloes-name-caught-up-in-d...
6/23/10 Tedesco responds to NAACP attacks on him
"Wake County school board member John Tedesco is firing back at the attacks launched against him at Monday night's rally and over the past several month by the leaders of the state NAACP."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/tedesco-responds-to-naacp-attacks-o...
6/23/10 Looking at whether to rename Enloe High School
"Should Enloe High School be renamed amid questions about whether it was named for a segregationist?"
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/looking-at-whether-to-rename-enloe-...
6/22/10 Barber and Petty issue their letter from a Wake County jail
"The title isn't as pithy, but the Rev. William Barber and the Rev. Nancy Petty have released today their own version of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/barber-and-tyson-issue-their-letter...
6/22/10 Geary on lessons learned from the "Raleigh 4"
"Here's a perspective of Monday night's state NAACP rally from one of the supporters of the old Wake County school diversity policy."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/geary-on-lessons-learned-from-the-r...
6/22/10 Hood "confused" by NAACP actions against Wake schools
"John Hood says he's "confused by the odd behavior" of the state NAACP and its leader, the Rev. William Barber, when it comes to their opposition to the changes going on in Wake County's schools."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/hood-confused-by-naacp-actions-agai...
6/22/10 Anti-segregation demonstration planned for July 20
"Unlike so many periods in the past in which school desegregation debates brought out angry, even violent, confrontations, the energy in Wake County is surprisingly humble and positive."
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2010/06/22/anti-segregation-demonstrati...
6/22/10 The call from Pullen Baptist: Put Raleigh 2010 in the civil rights history books as the place school resegregation failed
"Barber, along with Tyson and Petty, spoke powerfully to the theme that the battle over the Wake County schools is not just an episode in local politics but a landmark chapter in the state's and the nation's civil rights history."
http://www.indyweek.com/blogs/citizen/
6/22/10 The N&O gets the Wake County schools story wrong...again
"This is just plain lousy and inaccurate reporting. Leaders of the meeting did not ask or urge the crowd to enage in mass civil disobedience as Hui imples. They said repeatedly and clearly that people who care about the dismantling of our public school system should find their own way to participate."
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/06/22/the-no-gets-the-wake-county-sc...
6/22/10 Arrests anticipated for schools rally
"State civil rights leaders encouraged people to risk arrest as they announced plans Monday for a July 20 mass demonstration to protest the end of Wake County's school diversity policy."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/22/545286/arrests-anticipated-for-sc...
6/22/10 Tim Tyson mocks John Tedesco, Art Pope and Bob Luddy
"Despite the talk about ending "forced busing," Tyson said the school board will still have to run buses and assign students to schools they don't want to attend."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/tim-tyson-mocks-john-tedesco-art-po...
6/22/10 Diversity policy supporters invoke God to justify their fight
"Barber encouraged the crowd to pray for the members of the school board majority and "the children of the anti-diversity crowd."?
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/diversity-policy-supporters-invoke-...
6/22/2010 Open Letter to the Community, Clergy and Civil Rights Leaders - Thoughts While we were Being Handcuffed, and Processed at the Wake County Jail on June 15 after Engaging in an Act of Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, Reverend Dr. William Barber II
6/21/10 Elaine Marshall attends protest against Wake County school board
"Marshall, one of two candidates competing to be the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, stayed for most of tonight's rally as the Wake school board majority was excoriated for eliminating the diversity policy."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/elaine-marshall-attends-protest-aga...
6/21/10 NAACP announces July 20 mass demonstration against Wake school board
"The quick recap of tonight's meeting at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is that the Wake County school board should expect more protesters at the July 20 meeting."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/naacp-announces-july-20-mass-demons...
6/21/10 Norwalk accuses school board of engaging in backroom politics over high school site
"Wake County Commissioners Stan Norwalk hurled some pretty serious allegations at today's meeting about why the school board wants to build a high school in Rolesville instead of on Forestville Road in Raleigh."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/norwalk-accuses-school-board-of-eng...
6/21/10 No decision yet on barring Barber from school property
"Contrary to some reports you may have heard, the Rev. William Barber, head of the state NAACP, has not been barred from going on Wake County school system property as a result of last week's arrest."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/no-decision-yet-on-barring-barber-f...
6/21/10 Nancy Petty encouraging people to engage in civil disobedience against school board
"Petty acknowledges that some supporters of the old diversity policy weren't thrilled about the protest. But she's telling those people that the arrests show "the issue is serious and nothing will change if we remain silent."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/nancy-petty-encouraging-people-to-e...
6/21/10 GSIW accuses school board majority of disregarding community and family values
"The cost of their ongoing spending spree is in the tens of millions of dollars. But the damage they are doing to the quality of our schools is incalculable."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/gsiw-accuses-school-board-majority-...
6/21/10 School board breaking away from education establishment
"Is the Wake County school board majority cutting away the district's ties with the education establishment with actions such as leaving the state and national school boards association and changing the qualifications for superintendent?"
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/school-board-breaking-away-from-edu...
6/21/10 CMS hopes to avoid student assignment turmoil
"But schools in affluent suburban neighborhoods quickly overflowed into encampments of mobile classrooms. Meanwhile, families fled schools in low-income areas, leaving many schools with rising poverty levels and plunging test scores."
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/06/21/1514283/cms-hopes-to-avoid-s...
6/21/10 Wake schools fight stays hot
"The historic Brown v. Board of Education legislation desegregated schools," Bishop Richard K. Thompson said in a statement. "However, we can no longer sit in our sanctuaries silent while it is evident that covert activities are turning back the hands of time."?
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/21/543333/schools-fight-stays-hot.ht...
6/21/10 Top of the morning
"Wonder where the frugal Margiotta was hiding when he and the Gang of Five voted to waste $15 million by abandoning a site for a new high school that a nonpartisan panel of experts said was the best choice available."
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2010/06/21/top-of-the-morning-358/
6/21/10 Saunders: Neither side is listening
"As the rhetoric and tactics intensify over the direction of Wake County Public Schools, people on either side of the issue may conclude that the ultimate goal isn't education at all, but victory between warring factions who are dug in so deep philosophically that they couldn't see the other side's point of view if they tried."?
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/21/543275/neither-side-is-listening....
6/21/10 School board's decision to drop out of association questioned
"There are 115 school districts in the state and the group usually has 115 members. Effective July 1, the Wake school system will be the only non-member in the state."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7825958/
6/20/10 A superintendent, outside the box
"Whatever the reason, the Five In Charge decided last week that the new person don't need no stinkin' doctorate, nor any stinkin' certificate. Nor any recent school experience."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/20/540298/a-superintendent-outside-t...
6/19/10 Charter school move raises eyebrows
"Jane Pinsky, director of the N.C. Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform, said she thought Goodall may have crossed a line."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/19/540943/charter-school-move-raises...
6/19/10 Perfect school planning
"After reading the June 17 article about the possible school bond referendum to finance new schools, I want to thank the Wake County school board majority for making my decision at the voting booth easy. My vote will be no."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/19/540475/perfect-school-planning.ht...
6/19/10 Costly headhunters?
"Why is the board majority willing to pay more than double to a firm that has placed many CEOs but only two superintendents (in Houston and Buffalo) over another firm whose core business is school searches and has successfully placed more than 600 superintendents?"
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/19/540474/costly-headhunters.html
6/18/10 Pastor talks about school board arrest
"For me, our nation was founded on a principle that all are created equal and have certain rights and I think that abandoning a nationally recognized diversity policy that seeks to uphold our nation's and state's constitution, to go back and reverse over a century of work to treat people equally, to abandon these principles in favor of this new policy, is to turn our backs on the progress that we have made as a nation."
http://www.raleighpublicrecord.org/news/2010/06/18/pastor-talks-about-sc...
6/18/10 House wants to study diversity in schools
"With Wake County schools ending socio-economic diversity in school assignments, House members have put a Legislative Commission on Diversity in Public Schools in its budget proposal, Lynn Bonner reports."
http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/house_wants_to_study_div...
6/18/10 Perdue pushes for diagnostic assessment devices for teachers
"Gov. Bev Perdue is pushing for teachers across the state to have hand-held diagnostic assessment devices."
http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/7813466/
6/18/10 Rolesville school site stirs patronage charges
"It makes a lot more sense to put the high school where the students are and not at a remote site," Meeker said."?
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/18/539000/rolesville-school-site-sti...
6/18/10 Goodall's charter amendment would have helped his bosses?
"Goodall raised eyebrows in the Senate chamber Thursday when he tried to run an amendment to an education and jobs bill that would lift the cap. Goodall's proposals were shot down."
http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/goodalls_charter_amendme...
6/18/10 SOS: The schools' backward step
"These actions, often motivated by narrow partisan politics, violate the rights of students to a sound basic education under the state constitution, undercut the state's commitment to quality education and contravene the U.S. Constitution. This is a public emergency."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/18/538428/sos-the-schools-backward-s...
6/18/10 When money drives
"The heroic stand of William Barber, Nancy Petty, Tim Tyson and Mary Williams on June 15 should serve to galvanize further those of us who understand that the board majority's decisions are being driven by private, not public, interests."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/18/538499/when-money-drives.html
6/18/10 Questioning the merits of Rolesville High over Forest Ridge High
"As noted in today's article, Wake County Commissioner Stan Norwalk and Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker are leading the effort to get the commissioners to reject the land purchase."http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/questioning-the-merits-of-rolesville-high-over-forest-ridge-high
6/18/10 WEP on compromise falling apart on school board
"Differences between the two sides only grew sharper as the meeting wore on," the WEP writes."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/wep-on-compromise-falling-apart-on-...
6/17/10 The ever-changing tales of Tedesco
The presentation came after Tedesco gave a fiery speech at a tea party rally, railing against "social engineering." What does Tedesco really think? Well, what day is it?"
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2010/06/17/the-ever-changing-tales-of-t...
6/17/10 Wake school board considers bond issue amid controversy
"The ruling majority of the Wake County school board, locked in political battle about its neighborhood student assignment plan, faces another tough sell: persuading taxpayers to back a bond issue to build schools."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/17/537224/wake-school-board-consider...
6/17/10 Possibility of future arrests at school board meetings
"It is unclear whether or not the new majority is fully prepared for all of the trouble they will be facing in the coming months, but we can only imagine this will not be the last time someone stands up and is willing to be arrested to have his or her voice heard," the group writes."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/possibility-of-future-arrests-at-sc...
6/17/10 Timing Wake's next school construction bond issue
"When is the right time for the next Wake County school construction bond referendum to be held?"?
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/timing-wakes-next-school-constructi...
6/16/10 Dismissal of lawsuit against school board appealed
"The Board should be held accountable for its pattern of disregard of standards, policies, rules, laws, the spirit of the laws-all of which protect and promote citizen interests."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/dismissal-of-lawsuit-against-school...
6/16/10 Duke researcher has no regrets about protest, arrest
"Duke University research scholar Tim Tyson said Wednesday his arrest during a Wake County Board of Education meeting Tuesday night was for the greater good."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7799722/
6/16/10 School board protesters vow to fight on
"The four civil rights advocates who were arrested at Tuesday night's Wake County School Board are promising continuing action and a vigorous defense of their legal charges today at a public event at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/16/536212/school-board-protesters-vow-to.html
6/16/10 Board buys 143 acres for schools
"Administrators had warned that switching sites could cost $15 million more and delay the opening of the high school by two years to 2014. The new Rolesville site, tentatively called Rolesville High School, might be ready as soon as 2013."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/16/535236/board-buys-143-acres-for-s...
6/16/10 School board sit-in ends with arrests
"Protesters staged a 1960s-style sit-in at Tuesday's Wake County School Board meeting, spending more than an hour occupying members' seats to express deep opposition to the panel's direction."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/16/535233/school-board-sit-in-ends-w...
6/16/10 Arrests heat up spotlight over Wake school diversity fight?
"They won't be able to say we did nothing," said Tim Tyson, a historian, author and member of the board of the state NAACp conference. "They won't be able to say we sat idly by."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/arrests-heat-up-spotlight-over-wake...
6/16/10 Diversity policy supporters announce Monday meeting
"We will gather, discuss the issues and support one another," Petty said. "We invite all Wake County residents, young and old. It doesn't matter what your skin color is, it doesn't matter what your religion is."
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/diversity-policy-supporters-announc...
6/16/10 School Employees Visit Legislature For ‘Education Wednesday'
"North Carolina Association of Educators members from schools around the state will talk face-to-face with legislators to ask them to invest in education and Fund Schools First during "Education Wednesday."
http://wake.mync.com/site/Wake/news/story/52768/school-employees-visit-l...
6/16/10 NAACP Plans Rallies In Wake Of Arrests During Protest
The group began meeting at 11:30 Wednesday morning and that meeting is still taking place. "The first rally will take place Monday at 7 p.m. at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, 1801 Hillsborough St. in Raleigh."
http://wake.mync.com/site/Wake/news/story/52767/naacp-plans-rallies-in-w...
6/16/10 School board protest ends with arrests
"A takeover by opponents of the Wake County school board brought Tuesday's meeting to a grinding halt around 5:30 p.m. at school board headquarters on Wake Forest Road in Raleigh."
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7499944
6/16/10 NAACP: Community-based schools 'public emergency'
"The state NAACP says the Wake County Board of Education's move away from busing students to help balance socio-economic diversity in the school system is a "public emergency" and that the group won't stop protesting its "morally wrong" decision to move toward community-based schools."
http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7795140/
