If you've got a few bucks to spare, then Cary would love your help paying for a forum on school issues in Wake County.
The Town Council voted 6-1 on Thursday to approve holding the "Climate on Student Success" forum on May 11. With an estimated cost of $7,196, council members said they'd try to raise as much of the money as possible to pay for the event without using town dollars.
Putting up some bucks could get you a seat at the invitation-only event.
Things didn't go as planned for the school board on Thursday.
The board held a lengthy closed-session discussion on the ongoing dispute with Cary over road improvements near Panther Creek High. It's holding up the approval needed to use modular classrooms on campus.
The board's plan was to return to open session for an explanation on television of the school district's side of the case. There was only one problem.
It's not a shock that Apex Mayor Keith Weatherly took shots at Wake's diversity policy at Monday's reassignment hearing.
But what about Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht? As noted in today's article, Weinbrecht criticized the diversity policy while speaking on behalf of the parents trying to avoid being reassigned from Apex High to Athens Drive High.
Weinbrecht, normally a strong supporter of the school system, prefaced his remarks to the school board. He said that he has tried to work as a lobbyist rather than speak out publicly.
It's appropriate that Cary High is the host for tonight's community engagement meeting considering how central it is to many of the groups that will be speaking.
As noted in today's article, one group doesn't want to be reassigned out of Cary High. Two groups don't want to be forced to attend the school. A fourth group wants to be sent to Cary High.
Based on the expected turnout, it's probably a good idea to get there as early as 6 p.m. tonight when the signup sheets are distributed.
Cary Town Councilman Don Frantz is venturing back into the world of student reassignment.
Frantz sent this letter to the school district to object to the proposed reassignment of 84 students from Cary High to Apex High. He complains it's unfair to move the students, who are mostly from low-income families.
Administrators have proposed moving the students "to allow middle school students to move to high school with their peers." It would also "increase the number of low-income students at Apex High to make Apex High more in line with the county average for low-income students."
