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The Wake County School Board’s first 2013 meeting Tuesday focused on the search for a new school superintendent. That and replacing a board member are two key goals in the first few months of the year.
Superintendent Tony Tata was fired Tuesday by the Wake County School Board, leaving the body without leadership as they prepare to once again dismantle and recreate a school assignment plan.
We took excerpts that represented the most salient points of the new assignment proposal and explained them one by one.
The Wake County Board of Education met Tuesday to hear the outline of how the third assignment policy in three years might work for Wake schools. Members delayed upcoming public hearings and questioned the lack of a clear diversity component.
We’ve gathered a collection of portraits and firsthand accounts of waiting in Wake’s central offices in Cary to register students during the first week of school.
With a new student assignment plan slated to appear in September, Wake County school officials face difficult choices about the paths they will pursue to narrow the achievement gap. Perhaps the most daunting: can everyone agree on something?
Closing the achievement gap seems like an impossible mission, yet many in the school system believe it can be done. In this third part to our series we take a broad look at what works.
Wake County’s poor and minority high school students perform far worse on tests than their peers. But a Record analysis finds that unlike elementary school students, vulnerable high school students have slightly decreased the achievement gap during the past 10 years.
Wake school board members got their first look at the building and renovation needs for the school system on Tuesday. The needs are comparable to the last bond in 2006, which taxpayers approved at nearly $1 billion dollars. Opinion is divided over the price tag voters will see on a bond next year.
In a four-part series, we take an in-depth look at the differences in achievement among the different demographic groups in Wake County. While the gap has closed slightly in the last four years, it is significantly larger than in the early 2000s.
