Today marks the last business day in awhile that Wake County will have an assistant superintendent for growth and planning.
The dire budget means there are no plans to fill Asst. Supt. Chuck Dulaney's position after his retirement becomes effective Monday. Instead, Growth and Planning will be realigned.
Laura Evans, the most senior of the senior directors in Growth and Planning, will largely take over Dulaney's duties without getting the job title.
Evans will work with the school board's new student assignment committee to help review changes for the 2010-11 school year and for the long-term development of community assignment zones.
Dulaney got a going-away gift at last week's school board meeting.
Diana Bader and Anne Sherron, members of the soon-to-be former Growth and Planning student assignment advisory committee, presented Dulaney a certificate of achievement from the N.C. PTA Council "in recognition of his dedicated service to the welfare and education of children and youth" in Wake County.
Comments
No plans to fill position
Sat, 02/27/2010 - 11:33 — woodstockNo plans to fill Chuck Dulaney's position
This is good. Whatever it was Chuck Dulaney was doing in his position should never be done by anyone ever again. There is no need for a position like that.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAmen!
Sat, 02/27/2010 - 12:57 — DrActualFactualand more AAAAAAAmen. Whatever he was doing should never be done again! (here or anywhere else for that matter.)
Yeah we don't need anyone to
Sat, 02/27/2010 - 21:35 — danofncYeah we don't need anyone to plan for growth. What a crazy idea.
We'll just sprinkle the magic school-building dust when the need for a new school arises.
The zone plan has flaws that will cause arguments, just like the current plan. New schools have to be filled. It is very possible that when a new school is built the zones may have to be adjusted in order to redistribute the students.
A lot of the complaining that has been done lately about reassignments has been because of kids being moved because of new schools and not SED. That issue won't go away, no matter how the district is zoned.
It appears that you are
Sat, 02/27/2010 - 22:03 — woodstockIt appears that you are very literal.
"A lot of the complaining that has been done lately about reassignments has been because of kids being moved because of new schools and not SED."
Absolutely 100% not true. It is, however, the story that Dulaney has been selling...and you bought it. Fortunately, a vast majority of the voters in last year's elections did not.
How do you know it's 100%
Sun, 02/28/2010 - 00:55 — danofncHow do you know it's 100% not true? How many new schools have opened? How many kids have been reassigned?
Some of the nodes that have been moved may have been moved with the diversity goal in mind, but the impetus for the moving to start could easily have been a new school.
My daughter was reassigned between K and 1st grade. She went to 1st grade in a brand new school. It had nothing to do with diversity, because there isn't a school in my area that's close to the 40%.
The three-year plan on the
Sun, 02/28/2010 - 17:07 — DrActualFactualThe three-year plan on the WCPSS website outlined in pretty good detail some of the reasons nodes were moved. For example, I have lived in the same home for 16 years and our subdivision was reassigned from: Baucom ES to Olive Chapel ES to Salem ES to Highcroft ES(won that one so didn't have to go) then MYR to Turner Creek ES--all of them but Baucom were new so we HAD to go. The ironic thing is that after all this so-called growth our opt-out school is BAUCOM. (Back where we started.) The district just kept "finding" F&R nodes to make schools "comparable" and shipped out our node to make other schools healthy. Many, many of the surrounding nodes experienced the same types of assignments so eventually people felt they just were not sensible decisions. Not complaining, but it is what it is.
Dancing
Sat, 02/27/2010 - 01:03 — SDR256There was dancing in the street in my neighborhood celebrating Chuck's departure. We are happy to enjoy our freedom from social engineering, thank you very much. What do they say? Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Yeah Chuck. Best of it to you.
A Lot of Money
Sat, 02/27/2010 - 19:58 — local23Saved! Re-distribute duties and look at the long term savings. Re-distribute the money to the teachers and resources. Every bit counts!
BOE Agenda- March 2
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 15:08 — shank56Any agendas available yet for Tuesday?
COW and big Board meeting?
Not yet.
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 15:37 — KeungHui (author)Not yet.
BOE Agenda
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 15:09 — shank56double post
So...
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 10:10 — Bob_SconceKeung -- how do we know that Bader is going to be a member of that Committee?
I didn't say Bader was going
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 10:25 — KeungHui (author)I didn't say Bader was going to be a member of the new commitee. It just says she and Sherron are members of the old staff committee that's going to be replaced by the new board committee.
Thanks...
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 10:29 — Bob_SconceI just misinterpreted that last paragraph -- couldn't figure out how anybody could be a member of something that didn't exist!
Technically, the Growth &
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 10:39 — KeungHui (author)Technically, the Growth & Planning committee still exists. It just won't be around after the new board committee gets up and running.
Yes
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 10:44 — Bob_SconceI read "soon-to-be former" as "soon-to-be formed", which changed the meaning entirely.