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The Wake County Board of Commissioners voted 5-2 on Tuesday to include on its 2011 legislative agenda a push to elect a majority of Wake County School Board Members at large. Currently each school board member is elected by district, but the proposal would make some school board elections county wide. The idea would need approval from the state legislature to move forward.
Former Brigadier General Anthony Tata (pronounced TAY-ta) will take on his new role as superintendent for Wake County schools on January 31. He went on the record recently with reporter Will Huntsberry.
The Wake County Board of Education didn’t withdraw from its high schools’ accreditation Wednesday night, but it is one step closer to making that decision. The board discussed withdrawing accreditation in a controversial closed meeting, which took place during a public hearing on reassignments Wednesday night at Millbrook High School.
We sat down with Scott Huler, a local non-fiction writer (and Record board member), and asked him about his recent work and what it means to be the Piedmont Laureate.
