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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.
At a press briefing Friday, Wake County Public School System Superintendent Tony Tata set mid-June as the target for presentation and approval of a new student assignment plan. He also spelled out plans for increasing bus safety.
The Wake County School Board Wednesday released its latest response to a U.S. Department of Education investigation. This is the third response sent to the department since the investigation opened last fall. Read the response full text here.
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.
A new proposal for school reassignment received the same public response as all the other plans – mixed.
The Wake County Board of Education did not put a unanimous stamp this morning on its decision to let AdvancEd, Wake’s high school accrediting authority, proceed with its investigation in February. But board members did vote 6-2 to cooperate with the investigation.
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction presented its projected budget reductions to Wake County Schools at the Board of Education’s work session Tuesday. The budget preview gives the school board an idea of what a 5 or 10 percent budget reduction could look like.
The future accreditation status of Wake County’s high schools remains unknown.
