Here's a condensed recap of today's press conference held by Wake County Superintendent Tony Tata.

Tata said his staff will work through the weekend to be able to present at Tuesday's school board meeting the impact of making adjustments to the feeder patterns. He didn't go into specifics but said they're addressing some areas of concern that have been raised.

Tata said they'll also present info on the feasibility of making changes such as raising student achievement over proximity in the selection process and setting aside 15 percent of the seats at the high-performing regional choice schools for applicants from low-performing areas.

The girls golfer of the year in the Greater Neuse River Conference is Smithfield-Selma's Brittany Talton.

East Wake puts seven players on Greater Neuse all-conference soccer team.

Southeast Raleigh quarterback David Washington is named the Greater Neuse 4A Conference football player of the year.

The anti-Junior ROTC movement appears to be out at tonight's Wake County school board meeting.

Five of the 11 speakers have signed up to speak about a proposal to add an Army JROTC unit at Knightdale High. The board is also set to ratify the prior agreement to set up an Army JROTC program at Garner High.

"JROTC is part of the military industrial complex that promotes and profits from war," said Sandy Irving.

UPDATE

The JROTC program was approved as part of the consent agenda. Only school board member Anne McLaurin voted against the consent agenda. She didn't give a reason.

No. 1 Garner 37, Broughton 13 (FINAL, Thursday)

No. 2 Southeast Raleigh 55, Enloe 24 (FINAL)

No. 3 Hillside vs. Canes Bay, S.C. (Saturday)

No. 4 Cary 29, Holly Springs 7 (FINAL)

No. 5 Wakefield 42, Knightdale 32  (FINAL)

 Fayetteville Britt 42,  No. 6 Southern Durham 28 (FINAL)

No. 7 Leesville Road 39, Durham Jordan 6 (FINAL, Thursday)

No. 8 Wake Forest-Rolesville 37, Northern Durham 19 (FINAL)

No. 10 Middle Creek 48, No. 9 Fuquay-Varina 47    (FINAL 2OT)

No. 11 Harnett Central 22, Western Harnett 15 (FINAL)

Millbrook 26, No. 12 East Wake 9 (FINAL)

Green Hope 30, Sanderson 27 (FINAL, OT)

West Johnston 26, Cleveland 21 (FINAL)

Lee County 21, Apex 16 (FINAL)

Fayetteville Pine Forest 66, Smithfield-Selma 6 (FINAL)

Heritage 33, Corinth Holders 14 (3rd)

Panther Creek 23, Athens Drive 20, (FINAL)

Cedar Ridge 48, East Chapel Hill 34 (FINAL)

Cardinal Gibbons 44, Union Pines 0 (FINAL)

Southern Nash 21, Bunn 17 (FINAL)

Franklinton 41, Ravenscroft 27 (FINAL)

Jordan-Matthews 29, Northwood 12 (FINAL)

East Bladen 43, North Johnston 36 (FINAL)

Princeton 34, Dixon 0 (FINAL)

South Johnston 42, Clayton 35 (FINAL Thursday)

Wake County school board candidate Jennifer Mansfield is praising the actions of the new school board majority while also warning that things have become too politicized.

In an interview Thursday on the Rick and Donna Martinez Show on WPTF, Mansfield highlighted he tightrope she's walking on of trying to get people who disagree with incumbent Kevin Hill to vote for her instead of Heather Losurdo.

"District 3 for the last four years has not had a voice for parents and students so that's first and foremost is to be a voice for District 3 residents," Mansfield answered when asked why she's running. "And we need somebody who's in there whose experienced and I've been doing this for over six years, been involved in school issues."

In 4-A: Wilmington Laney at West Johnston; Clayton at Fayetteville Britt; Garner at Scotland; Northern Durham travels to Holly Springs; Apex is at Wake Forest-Rolesville; Leesville Road is at Person; Riverside is at Fuquay-Varina
 

The second round of the NCHSAA girls soccer playoffs takes place either Friday or Saturday. Here are all the match-ups from around the area and the rest of the state.

Wake County Superintendent Tony Tata announced today the names of eight of the 10 schools that will get special academic programs for the 2011-12 school year to make them more attractive to parents.

Tata said that Hilburn Drive, York and Aversboro elementary schools, Carroll Middle School and Knightdale High School will receive STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs.

Tata announced that Timber Drive, Jeffreys Grove and Stough elementary schools will receive Global Schools programs that will include things such as greater emphasis on teaching foreign languages.

UPDATE

In case I didn't make it clear in my budget post, Tata said today that he has no plans to cut back on the new STEM schools and Global Schools even in the face of deeper than projected state funding cuts.