More details to come later but there's been a change in which five under-enrolled Wake County traditional-calendar elementary schools would get additional staffing for the 2011-12 school year.
Wake Superintendent Tony Tata said today that Baileywick Elementary School is on the list because its enrollment has been declining sharply. He said that York Elementary is no longer in the running because new data shows the school's enrollment is projected to increase.
The other schools getting additional teachers are still the same as previously mentioned. They are Aversboro, Hilburn Drive, Jeffreys Grove and Root elementary schools.
The school board will vote today on allocating the $896,000 for the extra positions at those schools. Tata said he wanted the vote now to have the info out before they hold the teacher transfer fair.
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Exactly what is the logic...
Wed, 04/06/2011 - 07:04 — bpuli9999behind adding teachers to schools where there are not enough (??) children? Are there plans to send more children to these schools?
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Wed, 04/06/2011 - 05:09 — ThomasCurtisI bet that would be a great idea. To increase numbers of teachers on the under enrolled schools would be advantage to the students. This is also to implement a better outcome on education. This is also to help students to be well educated and nourished well on the coming future.
What happened to the article on the study that destroyed the
Tue, 04/05/2011 - 17:22 — Platowasrightliberals' argument that our racial quota, forced busing scheme as good for our non-asian minorty students. On the contrary, the farther their bus ride, the poorer their test scores?
What happened to that article?
Bus rides and Test Scores
Tue, 04/05/2011 - 18:54 — NCSU_fanTo even have a discussion that the distance a child rides on a bus in some correlates to their test scores is idiotic. If it was only that simple. Everyone needs to just stop trying to take this sliver of data and make it into something its not, it really diminishes your credibility. My sister in-law lives in the Sand Hills and she rides a bus for 1 hour and 20 minutes and she's a brilliant young girl.
No, it is idiotic NOT to see
Wed, 04/06/2011 - 15:13 — woodstockNo, it is idiotic NOT to see the correlation. The excessive busing does more than waste precious time and add unnecessary inconvenience to the lives of students and their families, it creates barriers and limits access to resources. Imagine a poor child from a single parent home having to get up at 5:15am to be at the bus stop by 5:45am for a hour-long bus ride to school. Now, they need some academic assistance or access to computers that they do not have at home. An afterschool program or access to a computer lab and mentor would be helpful. It would make a lot of sense to have these resources nearby the community school they attend and live by. But for too many they aren't, so after a long morning bus ride and a day at school, they get to get back on a bus for the long bus ride back home to what for many is an unsupervised home. That is a recipe for failure. Community schools address the challenges many low income students face and give the resouces they need to succeed.
Really?
Wed, 04/06/2011 - 08:54 — Bob_SconceYou're talking about people looking at data based on busing statistics for the entire 140,000 students in Wake County, complaining that they're only looking at a "sliver of data" and then you counter with a sample size of ONE -- your sister-in-law?
Talk about diminishing credibility.
Incidentally, how old are you that you have a sister-in-law who's still in high school?
Haha
Wed, 04/06/2011 - 14:21 — midtownmom"Incidentally, how old are you that you have a sister-in-law who's still in high school?"
I'm guessing from reading all his/her posts that the writer is at the most a high school student.