Parents at Daniels and Leesville Road middle schools will get a second crack today at persuading the school board to reverse recent votes.

Today's board agenda includes a vote on converting Leesville to a year-round calendar and another on removing the magnet program at Daniels. Parents will be able to have their say during the public comment portion at 4 p.m.

As noted previously, a revote was likely.

UPDATE

Ron Margiotta unsuccessfully asked his fellow board members to pull the items for Leesville and Daniels off the agenda. Both of his motions to remove the items died from a lack of a second. He had argued they should be pulled to allow more time for public comment before a final decision is made.

A number of parents at Baucom and Green Hope elementary schools are wondering what will happen if they still want to be on a year-round calendar after the schools switch back.

Nothing is final yet but Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, said the year-round options would likely be Laurel Park Elementary for Baucom families and Carpenter Elementary for Green Hope parents.

Dulaney said Turner Creek Elementary wouldn't have enough space to handle the Baucom families who might want to stay on a year-round calendar.

UPDATE

See end of post for more info on Turner Creek. 

The school board has agreed to switch Baucom and Green Hope elementary schools back to a traditional calendar.

Baucom will switch back from a year-round calendar for the 2009-10 school year. Green Hope won't make the move until Alston Ridge Elementary opens. It's schedule to open for the 2010-11 school year.

But in a surprise to some board members, they're also now considering today whether to convert Leesville Road Middle School to a year-round calendar.

UPDATE

Click here for the online story. The board voted 7-1 to convert Leesville with Margiotta the lone dissenter.

If Wake pulls the uncoversion trigger, it's looking pretty good that Baucom Elementary School will be on the list.

As noted in today's article, several school board members say that Baucom would be a lkely school to switch back to a traditional calendar. A school in Knightdale also probably would rank. But after that it's pretty uncertain.

"Baucom keeps coming to the foreground," said school board member Patti Head.

It's probably safe to assume that a lot of people are wondering which schools might be recommended for conversion back to a traditional calendar.

As noted in today's article, no specific schools were named at Tuesday's school board meeting. But at this point it's only likely that a few of the 22 converted schools will be proposed.

This handout from Tuesday's committee of the whole meeting provides some clues as to where the staff and board will look at first. The key column to focus on in attachment 1 is which converted schools would still be under capacity if they were on a traditional calendar.