Transfer appeal season is off and running.
As noted in today's article, the school board heard more than 200 appeals on Monday. It's the first of several hearings scheduled for this month.
The board is dealing with the first group of people whose transfer requests were rejected by staff.
As of Friday, staff had approved 2,415 of 3,884 requests. Of those approved, 1,528 were awarded under the grandfathering provisions.
Three separate panels were running on Monday. Kevin Hill and Horace Tart were in one. Ron Margiotta and Lori Millberg were in another. The third group was heard by Beverley Clark and Patti Head.
Margiotta joked that they didn't put him and Tart on the same panel because they recommend approving too many of the appeals.
The full board reviews the recommendations from each panel and then votes on each appeal individually.
Most of the appeals are from people who are trying to reverse reassignments or who had their February magnet or year-round applications rejected.
For instance, Brian and Nancy Wisniewski of North Raleigh had filed a magnet application in February for their daughter to attend kindergarten at Wiley Elementary School. Zoe was adopted from China.
The parents thought it made sense for Zoe to attend Wiley because the school offers Chinese, not something you can get at any Wake elementary school.
But their application was denied because of Wiley's popularity and the fact their base school is Fox Road Elementary.
Fox Road is out of the top selection tiers for Wiley because 62 percent of its students are low income.
Comments
where do I go from here?
Mon, 07/06/2009 - 20:28 — cjmAfter having our transfer appeal and subsequent appeal hearing declined we feel frustrated and discriminated against. Is there any outside committee or local governing officials who can help us with our case. Other families in our neighborhood have had transfer requests approved for their children.
civil action law suit
Wed, 06/10/2009 - 16:46 — rjmikellI received our appeals denial letter today. Explain to me why a double AG student can't get into an AG magnet school? I'm interested in pursuing this legally as I feel this action violates the school board's own statute to consider "the best interests of the child". If there is an attorney out there or other parents interested in joining us please post a message.
Explanation:
Wed, 06/10/2009 - 17:04 — CaryMomof4Unfortunately there are more AG students than spaces available for them in the AG magnet schools. And you probably live in the wrong node to get into one of the few spots.
Don't forget that Wiley
Wed, 06/03/2009 - 12:07 — jenmanDon't forget that Wiley isn't even located in a low income area. The nodes surrounding Wiley have middle to upper income families in them and they get all those magnet extras automatically. They also get priority over the rest of us for admittance to Ligon.
The magnet situation is
Tue, 06/02/2009 - 09:26 — aspienatThe magnet situation is insane and also abreach of civil rights. First if you are low income but not in Raleigh then you can not go to a Magnet. Great planing; screw low income parents who want to live in a less socialy destructive enviroment then the low income parts of Raleigh. Again the school board proves they only care about Raleigh parents!!!!!