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Ten-Point Grading Scale Will Apply to All Beginning with 2015-2016 School Year

The NC Board of Education voted today to begin full implementation of a 10 point grading scale with the start of the 2015-2016 school year. This means that all high school students will earn grades on a ten-point grading scale beginning next year. Initially, the NC BOE planned implementation beginning with next year’s 9th graders. Grade […]

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How Far Does $3.75 Million Go?

That’s the question for the WCPSS Board of Education. For this school year, county commissioners approved a recurring $3.75 million to apply to teacher supplements.  This money is a local addition to state base salaries.  It helps Wake County attract and retain high quality teachers, and addresses cost of living differences in Wake County versus

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Bengal = CAT

Fuquay-Varina High (home of the Bengals) has developed an award-winning Pre-Apprenticeship Program with Caterpillar, Inc. The Caterpillar Assembly Pre-Apprenticeship is a year and a half program that prepares students for employment at the Caterpillar plant located in Clayton, NC. Throughout the program, students take manufacturing related courses through Johnston Community College and work onsite at

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To Cap or To Reassign

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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Setting a Baseline for Instructional Technology

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 Ten-Point Grading Scale – Coming to a High School Transcript Near You

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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Magnet School Expansion

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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