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At their meeting Monday county commissioners unanimously approved a contract to renovate a waste station in eastern Wake County. The contract went to Chair Paul Coble’s brother-in-law’s company.
County Commissioners met in a work session Monday to hear how the county is implementing the Affordable Care Act.
A video interview in the back of Whatever Brains’ bus along with three songs from their Hopscotch set.
We invaded Lonnie Walker’s practice space this week to record two of their new songs and talk to them about Hopscotch, music and the evolution of the band.
Hopscotch is entering its third year and has already significantly increased the numbers of bands and music venues that will take part in the festival. The festival’s long-term impact on Raleigh is still hard to quantify, but most believe its cultural impact will pay economic dividends.
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.
