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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.
Walnut Creek Elementary has been a poster child for Wake County’s debate about high-poverty schools. Its students recently saw big gains in test scores but are still well below the county average.
Wake County schools have seen steady growth since the recession hit in 2008. But this year Wake’s central office is seeing a high volume of traffic, and growth may be re-approaching levels not seen since before the recession.
Figuring out the tangled web of college financing is discouraging for many prospective students, but a new federal initiative could lead universities in Raleigh to help make paying for college understandable.
Wake County schools currently builds elementary schools on 20-acre tracts of land. But 20 acres is hard to find in Raleigh, where school capacity is stretched thin.
No matter how this year’s elections shake out, Republicans will maintain the majority on Wake’s County Commission. But if Dems hope to retake the majority any time soon, they’ll need to win all three seats this year.
As electric vehicle charging stations begin to dot the city’s landscape, the Record asks if they’re here to stay.
Downtown restaurant Mecca hosted a meet and greet Monday for Raleigh service industry workers and local candidates and politicians.
A lifelong Raleigh resident on his way to a Master’s program at Harvard charges that the Downtown Raleigh Sports Bar and Grill assaulted him and discriminated against him strictly because of his race.
After one year of a choice assignment policy that was enacted by a lameduck Republican majority, the Democratic majority is directing that Wake schools again moves towards a system that controls for diversity.
