A number of parents at Baucom and Green Hope elementary schools are wondering what will happen if they still want to be on a year-round calendar after the schools switch back.

Nothing is final yet but Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, said the year-round options would likely be Laurel Park Elementary for Baucom families and Carpenter Elementary for Green Hope parents.

Dulaney said Turner Creek Elementary wouldn't have enough space to handle the Baucom families who might want to stay on a year-round calendar.

UPDATE

See end of post for more info on Turner Creek. 

Several different options were discussed on Tuesday for providing families with more access to traditional-calendar schools.

It's just, as noted in today's article, that switching Baucom and Green Hope elementary schools back to a traditional calendar were what got the school board's support. But staff brought up two other options.

For instance, Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, had an option that would have created more traditional-calendar seats in Knightdale.

The school board has agreed to switch Baucom and Green Hope elementary schools back to a traditional calendar.

Baucom will switch back from a year-round calendar for the 2009-10 school year. Green Hope won't make the move until Alston Ridge Elementary opens. It's schedule to open for the 2010-11 school year.

But in a surprise to some board members, they're also now considering today whether to convert Leesville Road Middle School to a year-round calendar.

UPDATE

Click here for the online story. The board voted 7-1 to convert Leesville with Margiotta the lone dissenter.

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.”

If Wake pulls the uncoversion trigger, it's looking pretty good that Baucom Elementary School will be on the list.

As noted in today's article, several school board members say that Baucom would be a lkely school to switch back to a traditional calendar. A school in Knightdale also probably would rank. But after that it's pretty uncertain.

"Baucom keeps coming to the foreground," said school board member Patti Head.

It's probably safe to assume that a lot of people are wondering which schools might be recommended for conversion back to a traditional calendar.

As noted in today's article, no specific schools were named at Tuesday's school board meeting. But at this point it's only likely that a few of the 22 converted schools will be proposed.

This handout from Tuesday's committee of the whole meeting provides some clues as to where the staff and board will look at first. The key column to focus on in attachment 1 is which converted schools would still be under capacity if they were on a traditional calendar.

Rescinding the year-round conversions is now officially on the school board's table.

School board members asked Chuck Dulaney, assistant superintendent for growth and planning, today to come up with a scenario for the next building program that would reverse some of the conversions. He's expected to report back next month with schools that could be switched back to a traditional calendar.

The thing to keep mind is that the board is looking at reversing a few conversions, not all 22.

Click here for the online story.

Year-round schools will be back on the school board's agenda this week.

During Tuesday's committee of the whole meeting, the board will "review information related to the impact of utilizing elementary and middle schools on four-track year-round calendars versus traditional calendars." It's part of the ongoing discussion of the assumptions that will be used as part of the next capital improvement program and bond issue.

The school board is feeling more heat to reconsider the year-round issue in light of the sharp underenrollment at year-round schools and the crowding at traditional-calendar schools.

The school board will go back behind closed doors today to discuss the latest happenings in the year-round lawsuit.

As previously noted, the N.C. Supreme Court agreed last week to hear Wake CARES' appeal and to leave in place the stay that requires Wake to continue to seek consent for year-round schools.

School board member Ron Margiotta made a motion to move the discussion, scheduled for closed session, to an open discussion. He argued an open discussion would best serve the public interest.

It's looking less likely that you'll be able to rely on the assurances that will be part of the new multi-year assignment plan.

As noted in today's article, the state Supreme Court's decision to hear the year-round case will pose major challenges on Wake's ability to lock down the new plan. The possibility of the school board revisiting the plan after it's adopted is going up.

In other words, you might not want to base any vacation plans off the plan that the board is scheduled to adopt in January.