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The WakeEd blog is devoted to discussing and answering questions about the major issues facing the Wake County school system as it prepares to undergo historic changes. Will the new school board scrap the diversity policy in favor of neighborhood schools? Will year-round schools be converted back to a traditional calendar? How will the new board respond to growth and the school construction program?
WakeEd is maintained by The News & Observer's Wake schools reporter, T. Keung Hui. While Keung posts information and analysis on the issues, keep us posted on your suggestions, questions, tips and what you're doing to cope with the changes in Wake's schools.
Changing the reassignment timeline
It's time to revise your student assignment calendars.
School administrators plan to accelerate the timetable beginning with the multi-year assignment plan. A draft plan will now be released in late October, followed by community engagement meetings in November. A revised plan would go to the school board in mid-December with a final vote expected in January.
Previously, the community engagement meetings would be held in October and November with the draft plan coming out in December. The board would get the revised plan in January and vote in February.
Click here for the district's press release.
T. Keung Hui
T. Keung Hui covers Wake schools.
Comments
So funny
Tue, 08/19/2008 - 18:30 — rr77rr99Thanks for making me laugh tonight... community engagement meetings! That's the joke and punchline right there......
don't waste your time folks, just send a message, no BOND, no one gets their seats back (ER)
Should change the name.....
Tue, 08/19/2008 - 12:35 — WuptdoI have been going to the "Community Engagement" meetings for years. However, they are anything but "Community Engagement." It is more like we speak, you listen, you may speak for 3 minutes, but it doesn't mean we will listen.
However, I have found them to be great opportunities to see how much contempt the BoE(eR) and WCPSS Management really has for folks outside-of-the-beltline.
I would note that last year, I noticed for the first time that local politicians, outside of the school board, did show up and a few even spoke, and mostly on behalf of those who have been abused by WCPSS reassignment policies.
Keep the pressure on the other politicians folks -- it is their school system too.