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School board approves redistricting maps

Submitted by KeungHui on 05/17/2011 - 17:07
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More details to come later but the Wake County school board voted 5-3 today to approve the redistricting plan for election districts.

Democratic school board member Carolyn Morrison, who said she was satisfied with the changes to her District 6, joined the Republicans in voting for the maps. The other three Democrats voted no, having unsuccessfully asked that Kieran Shanahan draw up some options they could compare the plan against.

School board members John Tedesco and Deborah Prickett warned that they'd want to consider making major changes if new options were considered. In particular, Tedesco said he'd want in that scenario to make District 5 the only Inside the Beltline district with District 4 pushing further eastward into Knightdale and the eastern part of the county.

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Keung, Did they make changes

Wed, 05/18/2011 - 09:16 — jenman

Keung,

Did they make changes to the maps?  The map that appeared today in the N&O showed District 3 reaching all the way to the intersection of 98 and US1, but in the previous maps it didn't. 
 

The maps are exactly the

Wed, 05/18/2011 - 11:04 — KeungHui (author)

The maps are exactly the same as were presented by Shahanan. No changes were made.

I think the map in today's

Wed, 05/18/2011 - 11:49 — jenman

I think the map in today's paper might be off then.  It is different from the one on the WCPSS website.

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Tue, 05/17/2011 - 20:20 — Sideburns

How long until the NAACP/Southern Coalition/Center for Civil Rights/GWIZ/LWV/NCHeat file a lawsuit?

Actually

Tue, 05/17/2011 - 20:59 — local23

I would like to see them try, because this law firm worked very closely to ensure they meet the bulk of the criteria for re-districting!

One would think that this county has not done this before..it's just burning their butts to see these changes!

I like how the man thinks....

Tue, 05/17/2011 - 19:44 — Bob_Sconce

Now, why they didn't do John's alternate idea from the get-go, I don't know....

Now let's pass the Alves/WEP assignment plan

Tue, 05/17/2011 - 17:32 — FSandYOU

just as quickly so that we can get back to educating our kids.

And fighting the lawsuits.

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T. Keung Hui covers Wake schools.
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