Normally, the Wake County school board approves principal appointments unanimously.

But tonight, the board voted 6-2 on the entire list of administrative appointments presented to them. School board vice chairman John Tedesco and board member Debra Goldman didn't specify which one(s) they opposed.

Here's the list:

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Wake County's magnet school selection lottery is being discussed for possible use in the  Houston Independent School District.

Houston school officials hired Ramey Beavers, Wake's former senior director of student assignment, and Caroline Massengill, Wake's former senior director of magnet programs, to be consultants. Houston school leaders are considering whether to go with Wake's approach of families applying to magnet programs instead of to specific magnet schools.

"Caroline has been across the country working with magnets," said Michele Pola, chief of staff in Houston schools in a Wednesday article on Texas Watchdog. "They were available, and she has extensive experience."

Two Northern Wake high schools are getting new principals and a familiar face of reassignment will be filling at another school.

Ramey Beavers will become the interim principal of Holly Springs High. He's filling in for Luther Johnson, who has been hospitalized with an illness.

Beavers was the senior director in charge of growth management from 1997 to 2006. He was the person out there announcing the reassignment plan each year before he retired in 2006.