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Harvard Fellows Tackle Wake Schools Data
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The Wake County school system recently received one of 10 national grants that will provide new employees and resources to WCPSS to help make better use of the school system’s data.
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Choosing a School: Ready, Set, Go!
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Base school assignments are out and choice is in. The first round of school choice begins Tuesday.
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School Board Confused about Wake’s Public Information Policy
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A discussion of WCPSS’s policy on public information requests unexpectedly showed up on Tuesday’s board agenda as an action item. Certain board members asked whether group emails among board members comply with the spirit of the law.
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Changes to Student Assignment Won’t Be Quick
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Democrats have been looking for wriggle room in the implementing a new choice assignment plan for Wake County. Their conclusion Tuesday: if there’s no time to delay the plan, they’ll have to make changes simultaneously as the plan moves ahead.
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Domestic Abuse Increases as Holidays Wind Down
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There aren’t any clear statistics or comprehensive studies to prove domestic violence goes up during the holidays, but advocates and survivors in Raleigh say there’s no doubt that the extra strain of Christmas leads to outbursts of violence.
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Student Assignment: Wake’s Ghost of Christmas Past and Future
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The past year saw the unseating of a controversial Republican-led school board, a new student assignment plan and a flat budget for the third year running, but, despite the board changing hands, there won’t be a quick fix to student assignment or the system’s budgetary woes.
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Occupy Raleigh Gets a New Lease
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After losing a battle with the city to find a home, Occupy Raleigh has finally secured a base camp that occupiers say has brought new life to the movement.
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Unlocking Controlled-Choice Assignment Part 3: Potential Pitfalls
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The success of controlled-choice hinges on keeping all schools in Wake County desirable. At the same time the plan does not attempt to reduce the current 22 percent of schools where more than 50 percent of students receive free and reduced lunch. We look at this and other potential pitfalls of the new assignment plan.
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Unlocking Controlled-Choice Assignment Part 2: Balance with Magnets
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With diversity gone from the assignment policy and balancing student achievement low on the list of priorities, magnet schools will now bear the brunt of balancing achievement. Photo by Editor B.
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Unlocking Controlled-Choice Assignment Part 1: How it Works
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The complexities of the little-understood WCPSS controlled-choice assignment plan are locked in its 87 pages. Education reporter Will Huntsberry breaks the plan down in three pieces. Part 1: How it Works. Part 2: Where Magnets Fit. Part 3: Potential Weak Spots.
