Wake County school board member Keith Sutton has raised nearly $20,000 in his bid to keep the District 4 seat.

The new campaign report filed today shows Sutton having raised $19,892 as of Aug. 30 with $12,272.86 on hand. No report has been filed yet by opponent Venita Peyton.

Sutton's biggest individual donor in the new report is Capitol Broadcasting CEO Jim Goodmon, who gave $1,000. It's Goodmon's first recorded school board contribution this season, but he is one of the hosts for a Wake County Democratic Party fundraiser being held next week.

Is the Wake County school board's student assignment committee moving too quickly to make changes to the draft assignment map?

As noted in today's article, the committee voted 2-1 to approve changes Tuesday affecting more than 4,200 students. School board member John Tedesco, chairman of the committee, said they wanted to prove to the public that the lines in the map are fluid.

Tedesco said he also wanted to take care of obvious problems such as zone lines that divide neighborhoods.

Emotions ran high during today's Wake County school board student assignment committee meeting as several changes were made during the boundary lines for the draft map.

Minority board members and their citizen reps argued that it was premature to begin making changes to the zone lines without a more through review of the entire plan. But by a 2-1 vote, majority members John Tedesco and Chris Malone outvoted Carolyn Morrison to make some changes.

"This is a waste of my time," said Nicole Sullivan, the committee member appointed by board member Keith Sutton,

SEE END OF POST FOR LIST OF MAP CHANGES AGREED TODAY

The first meeting of the Wake County school board's new student assignment committee has now been set for Thursday.

School board member John Tedesco, the committee chairman, said the meeting will focus on looking at a handful of node changes for the 2010-11 school year. This includes requests from Brier Creek families to be reassigned to the new Mills Park Middle School and to stay at Panther Creek High.

The meeting will take place as the final community members of the committee are being finalized. The membership so far represents a diverse mix of people, some of whom will be well known on the blog.

 SEE UPDATE AT END OF POST FOR FINAL TWO COMMITTEE MEMBERS

CORRECTION: I HAD THE WRONG SUE KING LISTED. SEE INFO AT END OF POST.