There's no resolution yet on what the new academic goal should be for the school board.

Rosa Gill, school board chairwoman, floated going with the goal of raising the high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2013 and 95 percent by 2015. The graduation rate is now at 78.8 percent.

Gill said at Tuesday's committee of the whole meeting that they need to decide on a new goal soon.

Salaries and academic goals are expected to be on the minds of school board members today.

School board members say they expect to announce the terms of Superintendent Del Burns' new contract at today's meeting. Burns is guaranteed, by contract, to get a raise of at least three percent over his $262,500 base salary.

The question is whether school board members will go above 3 percent in a year in which they complained about being underfunded by county commissioners and raised student parking fees.

We can now officially say that the 95 percent goal is dead.

School administrators will present test results this afternoon showing Wake is well short of having 95 percent of students in grades 3-12 passing state tests by 2008. The result was expected but now it's final.

We don't have school-by-school results yet. But we do have districtwide data.