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Recapping today's board meeting

Submitted by KeungHui on 06/16/2009 - 19:14
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The school board had a pretty busy day today.

The board elected Kevin Hill as the new chairman and agreed on a procedure for soliciting applicants to fill Rosa Gill's seat.

The board trimmed $3.3 million out of the budget after getting less than requested from commissioners.

The board approved a new policy that should make it easier for families to request bus service after-school to home daycare providers and relatives.

The board changed the bell schedules for seven schools, including Enloe HIgh.

Also throw in the naming of principals to four schools.

UPDATE

Corrected link to bell schedule story.

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Misdirected link

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 20:04 — Apexter

Keung, the links for both the new policy and the bell schedule change direct us to the "Wake Approves School Bus Policy Change" article.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 20:28 — KeungHui (author)

Thanks for pointing it out. It looks like the online folks put the wrong link in. I don't have the ability to fix the link on the newspaper's home page. Instead, I've changed the link in this blog post to the other one I wrote.

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T. Keung Hui covers Wake schools.
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