If you're a parent of a school-age student, you're probably wondering right now if school will be delayed or canceled Friday because of the possible snow.

At today's joint meeting of the school board and county commissioners, interim Wake County Schools Superintendent Stephen Gainey said he had a "plan" for Friday to deal with the weather situation. He just wasn't providing any details.

Wake may make an announcement as soon as today about a delay rather than wait until the pre-dawn hours of Friday to give parents more time to prepare. Even then, you probably still want to check in the morning in case the delay turns into a snow day.

Magellan Charter School in Raleigh has already announced that school will be delayed Friday.

North Carolina charter schools made the news last week with a pair of reports with vastly different viewpoints.

A report from the John Locke Foundation, a conservative Raleigh think tank, said that 150 traditional schools across the state would be forced to close if the State Board of Education extended new charter school performance standards to all public schools. In the Wake County school system, that would include three regular schools and one alternative school.

The Locke Foundation argues that it's unfair to hold charter schools to stricter standards than traditional public schools. New standards for charter schools say they can be shut down if for two of three consecutive years they don't meet or exceed 'expected growth' in test scores and have an overall performance composite score of less than 60 percent.