Calls for Wake to do more to use federal stimulus dollars to reduce class sizes have only increased since traditional-calendar schools opened last week.

As noted in today's article, the reality of many classes with more than 30 students because of fewer teachers on the books has set in. You've got classes of more than 40 students in some rooms.

Gov. Beverly Perdue, State Board of Education Chairman Bill Harrison and the N.C. Association of Educators is contrasting how Wake used stimulus dollars with districts such as Winston-Salem/Forsyth that jumped all in to use the money to save jobs and keep class sizes the same at Title I schools.