The school board voted to approve the 2015-2016 school enrollment plan on December 2nd. The plan moves 2,734 students primarily to fill three new schools that will open next year. Student movement also addresses overcrowding, aligns school calendars across grade spans, and reduces the number of schools students are assigned to within a single neighborhood. […]
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On Behalf of Wake Education Partnership: Amanda Romano (919) 233-6600 amanda@mmipublicrelations.com http://mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 16, 2014 Wake Education Partnership Receives $40,000 Childhood Literacy Grant From PricewaterhouseCoopers Funds will bolster WakeEd’s initiative to raise the reading ability RALEIGH, N.C.—Wake Education Partnership announced today it has received a $40,000 early childhood literacy grant from
At the November 2nd school board work session, staff presented the third (and final) draft of the 2015-2016 School Enrollment Proposal. The proposal affects a total of 2,724 students – 60 percent of whom are eligible to grandfather to stay at their current school. The third draft incorporates additional parent and community feedback. Senior Director
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Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) 2013 provides $26.5 million for instructional technology and $38.4 million for technology infrastructure. Improvements to infrastructure will include a reworking of wireless and network capacities that will make possible 1:1 (one to one) connection density on campuses. Currently, all campuses have wireless access, but connections are not robust enough to support every
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The last time you submitted assignments and received grades was likely in college or graduate school. And most colleges and graduate schools award grades on a ten-point grading scale. That same grading scale has been adopted by the State Board of Education for NC’s public high schools starting with next year’s freshman students. The current
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Five new schools will get magnet school status and will join slate of thirty-four that WCPSS currently offers. Broughton High and Daniels Middle will return to magnet status. These two schools had magnet designation in the past, but both lost magnet programs in 2008. They will now be Global Studies magnets. Together they will provide a
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A freshman class will join the student body of the Vernon Malone College and Career Academy for the 2015-2016 school year. WCPSS staff recommended adding the ninth grade to the school\’s grade span during the October 7th Board of Education work session, and the Board of Education voted to approve this addition on October 21st.
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Changes have been made to the School Enrollment Plan first released by WCPSS staff back in August. They reflect feedback that was provided by the community. And let’s just say that the community did a great job of providing that feedback. Senior Director Laura Evans reported more than 4,000 comments and suggestions on the first
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A final budget was presented to, and adopted by, the Board of Education for the 2014-2015 school year. As discussed in a prior edition of In Context, the district faced an overall reduction in state funding of $1.5 million. With legislative teacher raises other benefit cost increases, they also faced an additional $11.1 million in
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We’ve written about this before, but a second look is worth taking. In this past legislative session, a change was made in how the biennial state budget will be prepared. In past years, state agencies were able to prepare a continuation budget that reflected predicted changes. For example, the Department of Public Instruction was able
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