New student assignment plan options will be released to the public May 23, Wake Schools Superintendent Tony Tata said Friday.<\/p>\n
Tata\u2019s student assignment task force has considered nine plans, but only two received the group\u2019s endorsement and are considered the two finalists. Those two meet the 18 criteria for a good plan, including Tata\u2019s often mentioned priority of student achievement.<\/p>\n
Tata is not giving specific details about the plans before their release, but he outlined the basic structure of the two finalists.<\/p>\n
One plan, dubbed the Blue Plan under the task force\u2019s color-coding system, is a community-based choice plan, Tata said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has some of the Alves plan in it,\u201d he said, referring to the Wake School Choice Plan developed by consultant Michael Alves. \u201cWhen you talk about a community-based plan, proximity to home is the No. 1 driver.\u201d<\/p>\n
The plan isn\u2019t strictly location based.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe issue with a strict base plan is, if every student today went to the nearest school, 50-some schools would be at 150 percent of capacity,\u201d he added. \u201cAbout an equal number would be at 50 percent of capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second plan, dubbed the Green Plan, is a balanced base plan in which \u201cstudent achievement is a recommended driver for some assignments,\u201d Tata said.<\/p>\n
The task force is still working out the kinks. For instance, the Green Plan as it stands now would leave about 11,500 students in limbo, given caps on magnet school enrollment.<\/p>\n
Determining where those students would go and for what reasons is key to making the Green Plan work.<\/p>\n
The district will post to its website all nine of the plans that Tata\u2019s task force have considered.<\/p>\n
The Blue Plan and Green Plan will feature functionality that allows parents to type in their addresses and find school options under each plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the seven that didn\u2019t make it to the final round you\u2019ll be able to read why they didn\u2019t make it,\u201d Tata said. \u201cYou\u2019ll be able to see all 22 school districts that we researched.\u201d<\/p>\n
Budget Plea<\/strong><\/p>\n Superintendent Tata continues canvassing of Wake County state senators and representatives to ask that they hold to no more than a 5 percent cut in education funding. He has also met with Speaker of the House Thom Tillis.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been delivering the message that 8.8 percent is too much,\u201d said Tata, referring to the education cuts passed by the North Carolina House of Representatives. \u201cI want them to understand the impact of these proposed draconian cuts in education.<\/p>\n Among the cuts is $25 million in funding for teacher assistants.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re looking at contingency planning to see where we can make tradeoffs,\u201d said Tata. \u201cUntil I have a number I cannot make definite statements.\u201d<\/p>\n Gov. Bev Perdue\u2019s budget plan included a 5 percent cut to education. The state Senate has yet to pass a budget proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New student assignment plan options will be released to the public May 23, Wake Schools Superintendent Tony Tata said Friday. Tata\u2019s student assignment task force has considered nine plans, but only two received the group\u2019s endorsement and are considered the two finalists. Those two meet the 18 criteria for a good plan, including Tata\u2019s often mentioned priority of student achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,55],"tags":[132,220,63,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023"}],"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\/24030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}