Will you children be hearing President Obama's speech to students today?
It's going to depend on your child's principal if you're in the Wake County school system. Greg Thomas, Wake's director of communications, sent an e-mail to principals on Tuesday saying the speech is considered to be "an optional instructional activity."
The e-mail says "Should individual schools choose to participate, they are asked to follow our practice for any additional enrichment activity.
Wake County school officials say they've resolved the technical glitches that prevented some people from going online this morning to check magnet school and calendar application results.
Some people who logged on earlier this morning to check their results got error messages say they're application was not processed because they had applied to a program for which they were already assigned.
But Greg Thomas, a Wake schools' spokesman, said the glitch has been fixed now. You can go back online and see if you were successful applying this year.
Contrary to some reports you may have heard, the Rev. William Barber, head of the state NAACP, has not been barred from going on Wake County school system property as a result of last week's arrest.
Greg Thomas, a Wake schools' spokesman, said people are not automatically banned from school property if they're arrested on trespassing charges. He said today no decision had been made yet on whether to bar Barber or any of the other three people who were arrested at last week's school board meeting.
It wouldn't be unprecedented to issue those trespassing notices.
There's an interesting mix of Wake County school administrators who are hearing this year's student transfer appeals.
You've got people such as former principals David Ansbacher, Virginia Cardenas and Darryl Fisher and Assistant Superintendent David Holdzkom. You've also got people who've never worked in a school such as Marilyn Moody, senior director for child nutrition; Betty Parker, director of real estate services; and Greg Thomas, director of communications.
The mix is deliberate. Each two-member panel consists of one person with school experience and one person with no school experience.
