There are some big question marks that could upend the new multi-year reassignment plan.

As noted in today's article, school administrators are assuming that funding will still come through for the 10 new schools slated to open by 2012. They're also assuming that the district will win the year-round lawsuit.

If either or both don't go as hoped, the plan will need a major rewrite.

The financial crisis keeps claiming more victims, including the multi-year assignment plan.

As noted in today's article, school leaders say they won't be able to go forward with a multi-year plan due to all the construction projects that will now have to be delayed. This means a return to the single-year plans that have been the norm in Wake.

"Any time you can't move forward with your plans is disappointing," said Rosa Gill, chairwoman of the school board.

West Cary Middle School's sixth-graders won't be spending next school year at Alston Ridge Elementary School.

Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, said they're shelving plans to use Alston Ridge as a sixth-grade center in 2009. He said the school won't be ready next school year due to delays completing a sewer line and a retaining wall.

Alston Ridge will just open in 2010-11 as an elementary school. Its opening will make it possible for Green Hope Elementary to unconvert that year.

Several different options were discussed on Tuesday for providing families with more access to traditional-calendar schools.

It's just, as noted in today's article, that switching Baucom and Green Hope elementary schools back to a traditional calendar were what got the school board's support. But staff brought up two other options.

For instance, Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, had an option that would have created more traditional-calendar seats in Knightdale.

Wake is pulling the plug on the magnet program at Daniels Middle School.

The school board voted 5-3 to phase out Daniels' magnet program, but no timetable was announced today. Board members said they feel that Daniels, located off Oberlin Road near Cameron Village, will be in good shape even without a magnet program.

The board ran out of time before it could discuss the magnet high schools or any of the other magnet middle schools. They'll resume the issue at the Oct. 21 meeting.

"I was thinking of something [chief facilities and operations officer] Don Haydon has said. We've been conditioned to accept things that five years ago we would not have. People have made it work."

The above quote is what Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, told school board members at a facilities committee meeting two weeks ago.

Now what do you think he was referring to?

Sixth-grade centers are officially on the table to deal with overcrowding in some middle schools.

Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, proposed today delaying the 2009 opening of Alston Ridge Elementary in Cary to serve as a sixth-grade center for West Cary Middle School.

He also suggested delaying the 2009 opening of Herbert Akins Road Elementary in Fuquay-Varina to serve as the sixth-grade center for Holly Ridge and Fuquay-Varina middle schools.

The school board isn't the only group in the mood to reconsider things.

County Commissioner Lindy Brown said today she's reconsidering her vote against buying an 80-acre parcel off Forestville Road north of Raleigh for a new high school. She said she'll ask commissioners to now support the deal after getting new information at today's joint meeting.

School board members and administrators made a pitch for the commissioners to reconsider last month's 4-3 vote. School leaders cited a new lower price for the land, the unsuitability of alternative sites and the impact on student assignment.

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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.

Rescinding the year-round conversions is now officially on the school board's table.

School board members asked Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, today to come up with a scenario for the next building program that would reverse some of the conversions. He's expected to report back next month with schools that could be switched back to a traditional calendar.

The thing to keep mind is that the board is looking at reversing a few conversions, not all 22.

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