The Wake County school board is facing a lengthy agenda on Tuesday, including extending school waiting lists, changing the bell schedule for Middle Creek Elementary and votes on the Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy and the career and technical education high school.

Staff is recommending extending the waiting lists for students who didn't get into their first-choice school from June 29 to July 18. Any later could result in a student withdrawing after the 10th day of classes in a year-round school and thus not being counted at the new school.

The board will also vote on moving Middle Creek Elementary from a 9:15 a.m. start time to 8:30 a.m. According to the board agenda, it's being done to treat Middle Creek Elementary, West Lake Elementary and West Lake Middle as  a single campus because of their close proximity.

Is the new common core math curriculum too rigorous for elementary school students to be accelerated to take middle-school math?

As noted in today's article, most of the Triangle High 5 school districts are reacting to the transition to the common core by holding off on math compacting until middle school. In the Wake County school system, this means no replacement for the eliminated 5th/6th-grade compacted math class and no longer allowing elementary school students to go to a middle school to take math.

It created a mini-stir on PAGE of Wake County's Facebook page last week about rumors of Wake suspending acceleration. Wake is clarifying that this only applies to single-subject acceleration under the new math placement policy.

The Wake County school board announced two new principals this evening.

Anthony Muttillo was named principal of Leesville Road High School in North Raleigh with a salary of $98,298. The former Wakefield High assistant principal has been principal of West Millbrook Middle since 2008.

Daniel Simons was hired to be principal of West Lake Elementary School in Apex with a salary of $65,405.60. He's been principal of Irving Elementary School in Milwaukee since 2010.

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The Wake County school board appointed a principal to North Forest Pines Elementary School tonight and made several interim principal appointments.

Syreeta Smith was promoted from assistant principal to principal of North Forest Pines Elementary in Raleigh. She's been at the school since 2007 and will receive a salary of $80,788.24.

As for interim principals:

Wake County school leaders announced tonight the appointments and transfers of seven permanent and seven interim principals.

Scott Lyons was named principal of Enloe High in Raleigh with a salary of $99,666. He's been principal of Leesville Road High since 2009. He used to be an assistant principal at Enloe.

Christopher McCabe will be principal of Heritage Middle in Wake Forest with a salary of $93,303. He's been principal of North Forest Pines Drive Elementary since 2007.

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More details to come later but there's now a proposal on the table to collapse 14 multi-track Wake County year-round schools to a single track.

Superintendent Tony Tata proposed today giving flexibility to principals at under-enrolled year-round schools the flexibility to go to a single track for the 2011-12 school year. He said the principals would pick the track.

The schools identified by Tata are those that are at under 100 percent of what would be their single-track capacity: Alston Ridge, Ballentine, Banks Road, East Garner, Harris Creek, Highcroft, Lake Myra, Rand Road, River Bend, Timber Drive, Wakefield and West Lake elementary schools; and East Cary and Holly Grove middle schools.

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Tata says he'll come back in May with a specific list of schools to recommend. While he didn't specify a number, it will likely not be all of the 14 year-round schools that are below 100 percent of single-track capacity.

Wake County school administrators are recommending that only Leesville Road Middle and West Lake Elementary change their bell schedules for the 2011-12 school year.

In recommendations being presented at today's school board work session, staff is calling for leaving almost all the schools on their current times. Leesville would run from 8:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. instead of 8:05 a.m. to 3 p.m. West Lake would run from 8:20 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. instead of 8:20 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The new Walnut Creek Elementary would run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. This would be 45 minutes more than the typical elementary school schedule, potentially allowing for more instructional time.

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Wake County elementary students are bearing the brunt now for the state rejecting the 329 K-3 class size waivers

As noted in today's article, many of the 66 schools that had asked for the waivers are in the process of reorganizing classes to get them under 25 students. You're seeing new classes, track changes, multi-grade classes and classes consisting of children of different tracks.

Many of the schools are implementing the changes next week. 

Chris Augustine was the lone candidate to file today to run in this fall's school board elections.

Augustine, 43, a self-employed business owner from Cary who lives near West Lake Elementary school, became the fourth person to run for the District 2 board seat. He's talking about reforming the system to give teachers more control over education.

"Teachers unions and school boards are taking away from what students need to learn," Augustine said.

We've got new principals tonight at Garner High, Ligon Middle, Fuquay-Varina Elementary and West Lake Elementary.

Drew Cook was promoted from assistant principal to principal of Garner High. He replaces Mike Holton, who cited medical reasons for his departure.

Cook, who has worked as a teacher and AP at Garner High since 1997, will receive $97,167 a year,

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