In his latest attack on the new Wake County school board majority, Chris Fitzsimon takes shot at them for Tuesday's student assignment changes.

In a Wednesday column, Fitzsimon, executive director of the liberal N.C. Policy Watch, points to decisions such as "sending some children of well-connected political donors back to Lacy Elementary and moving some students from Garner High to Southeast Raleigh with no notice or public hearing."

Del Burns is no longer the highest-paid superintendent in the state.

The Charlotte Observer is reporting today that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Superintendent Peter Gorman got a $18,200 bonus and $7,150 raise on Tuesday. That lifts Gorman's total package to $320,350, above the $312,790 that Burns got earlier this month.

Gorman also got a perk that Burns doesn't have. At Gorman's request, he got a new clause in his contract promising to provide “reasonable security measures” to him and his family in case of “public controversy” or any other reason.

It's safe to say that Leesville Road Elementary parents will have a tougher time than their peers at Baucom Elementary or any of the Knightdale schools of being unconverted.

As noted in today's North Raleigh News article, not even Leesville's own school board member, Patti Head, is supporting switching the school back to a traditional calendar.

“I supported the conversion,” Head said in today's article. “To date, I haven’t been presented any information that would cause me to change my mind. But that doesn’t mean I’m not listening to people.”