County Government
Debate kicks off Wake’s election season
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Wake County Commissioner candidates met for a public debate Monday night, kicking off the local election season. Four county commissioner seats are up or grabs this fall.
Sunshine Blog
Sunshine blog: Wake County school board members’ emails
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The Raleigh Public Record is experiencing difficulty obtaining all of the documents encompassed in a public records request that we made to the Wake County Public School System in March. Our request returned 1,700 initial pages of emails.
Featured
Help track Wake County stimulus money
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The Raleigh Public Record has updated its Stimulus Tracking page and we need our readers to help provide more transparency to the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
News
Second school board vote approves community schools policy
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Members of the Wake County Board of Education voted 5-4 Tuesday in a second vote for community schools, ending the diversity policy based on economic status.
City Council
City council talking transit, hoping for half-cent sales tax
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Raleigh City Council had a special session Friday to discuss plans for commuter and light rail to be completed by 2031. Plans for such a system, which would stretch from Raleigh to Durham, Chapel Hill and potentially into Johnston County, have been in the works for the past ten years. Image courtesy the City of Raleigh Planning Department.
News
Russell Lee aka Sho Nuff, 1942-2010
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Russell Lee, more commonly known as Sho Nuff, passed away on March 28. He was a familiar, friendly face for many around Raleigh. Photo courtesy Goodnight, Raleigh.
News
School board ends diversity policy – and has its first real public debate on the issue
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Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting met the promise of chaos set in previous weeks. Diversity supporters made their final stand against the new board majority’s community based assignment policy which eventually passed in a 5-4 vote. Photo: Board member John Tedesco voted to end the diversity policy.
News
School board puts superintendent on leave
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In a closed meeting Tuesday night, the Wake County Board of Education chose to place Adelphus “Del” Burns, current superintendent for the school system, on paid administrative leave for the remainder of his contract.
News
Photos from the raucuos school board meeting
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A photo essay from this week’s school board meeting. The Wake County School Board voted 5-4 to end the economic diversity policy. The issue will be up for a second vote at the board’s next meeting. Read more about the meeting here.
News
School board votes down diversity policy
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Yesterday Wake County’s school board met amidst a packed house of supporters for Wake’s diversity policy and supporters for the new school board majority. The school board’s agenda for Tuesday received national coverage from the Associated Press and The New York Times because of the board majority’s intent to enact a resolution to end Wake’s diversity policy. The measure passed in a 5-4 vote.
