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Wake schools Superintendent Tony Tata Friday explained the schedule for developing a new comprehensive student assignment plan. He said that he and his six-member student assignment task force have been reviewing research and policies in “a couple dozen” similar districts around the country. Using 18 separate criteria, they have developed nine options.
Wake County Public School System Superintendent Tony Tata on Friday announced changes to the student transfer process that he will recommend to the board of education. Tata’s proposals follow his finding last week that board Vice Chair Debra Goldman did not abuse her position when she received a transfer for her daughter to a prestigious middle school.
In a move called a “demotion,” the Wake County School Board Tuesday agreed to move assistant principals to 10-month contracts as part of a budget savings plan. In other business, many people spoke during the public comment session on the state’s civil rights investigation.
A new Wake County Schools budget draft calls for the elimination of about 220 non-teaching jobs and two new schools in Raleigh.
New Wake County Public School System Superintendent Anthony Tata sought to paint himself as a friend to parents and students disgruntled over the district’s reassignment changes in a public forum Thursday night.
