With no fat in the WCPSS operating budget, the only thing left to cut is muscle. Last week’s Wake County Commission vote to approve its 2016-17 budget left an $11.8 million deficit in next year’s proposed school district operating budget, which had planned for a $35.7 million increase. The difference means school budget staff will […]
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There’s a good chance that the careers today’s 4-year-olds will have don’t exist now, but when they graduate high school in 2030, they will need to possess the skills of those careers regardless. \”(The future) will require more than just a multiple choice test,\” said Casey Remer, Director of Policy and Programs at the
It’s a question special education teachers at Hilburn Academy have to answer every year. How do you teach elementary school students with disabilities the concept of “fast?”   The challenge is that for many students with disabilities, going fast is a secondary experience. Some students lack muscle skills to be able to run down a
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Think back to the first time you read a book on your own. Then recall the first book you really loved, maybe devouring it in one day or rereading it year after year. Now imagine you’d never had those experiences, never learned to read at a level that enabled you to read to learn. That frustrating
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Think of your career ten years from now. You’ve received a promotion or two, increased your salary by more than 25 percent and now you’re in the corner office. You use your internal talent to steer your company to success. An internal talent force that will be entering seventh grade next year. That’s right. Assuming
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Just as the State Board of Education was set to approve revisions to the high school math standards, Sen. Jerry Tillman introduced a bill to switch the sequence of math instruction altogether. What’s at stake is the difference between the ways in which high school math is taught. The current method is to use an
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The state and local budget processes are in their final stages, and there’s a great deal at stake on their final versions. Locally, there’s concern that over the difference between what the schools are requesting and what the county is offering. At the state level teachers are awaiting word on what type of raise they
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People like to know who is number one. So there’s no surprise that many people were upset when the Wake County Board of Education last week approved a new policy which prohibited the naming of valedictorians and salutatorians at all of the district’s high schools. In place of naming the two students in each graduating
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It’s funny to think about ending something in May. We’re almost halfway through the calendar year, but, like many businesses, our fiscal year is coming to a close. As we look at spreadsheets and calculate numbers for next year, we also have to look back and ask ourselves, “Are we having an impact?” At STEMposium,
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My name is Gray Reed and I serve as the Triangle Region President for BB&T, a 144-year old North Carolina based financial services company that operates in 15 States and DC. I graduated from Broughton High School in 1979, along with my wife, and we have two daughters who are recent grads of Broughton. During
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