{"id":10011,"date":"2012-01-17T09:57:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=10011"},"modified":"2013-03-25T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:13:57","slug":"choosing-a-school-ready-set-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2012\/01\/17\/choosing-a-school-ready-set-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a School: Ready, Set, Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 1 p.m. Tuesday, parents will be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/assignment.wcpss.net\/\">rank schools<\/a> on their choice list to secure their child\u2019s assignment for 2012-13 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Before a family can participate in the choice process, they need to enroll, which can be done at any Wake County school with the child\u2019s birth certificate, proof of address and parent\u2019s ID. Once enrolled families can participate in the selection process by ranking their choices <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-10012\" title=\"school.choices_websiteWCPSS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/school.choices_websiteWCPSS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/school.choices_websiteWCPSS.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/school.choices_websiteWCPSS-336x193.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Families who are already part of the school system don\u2019t need to take part in the selection process. They\u2019ll keep their current assignment. However, they can participate if they want to change schools.<\/p>\n<p>Families entering kindergarten, on the other hand, will need to participate in the choice process unless they want to end up in whatever schools have leftover seats. Superintendent Tony Tata and his assignment team have long acknowledged that for the plan to be successful, everyone entering the school system will need to participate in the choice process.<\/p>\n<p>View a timeline of critical dates in the selection process.<\/p>\n<p>Email any questions about the assignment plan to <a href=\"mailto:editor@raleighpublicrecord.org\">editor (at) raleighpublicrecord.org<\/a> or post them in this forum.<\/p>\n<p><em>To stay up to date the Record\u2019s original WCPSS reporting, you can follow Will Huntsberry on Twitter @willhuntsberry and by searching #wakeschoolboard.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Base school assignments are out and choice is in. The first round of school choice begins Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24024,"featured_media":10012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,23,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}