Today's melodrama about the community-based school assignment resolution will in all likelihood be repeated two weeks from now.
As noted in today's article, Wake County school board chairman Ron Margiotta said it will take two votes and not just one to pass the resolution. A similar process was needed when the board approved the mandatory year-round school resolution.
Barring the scheduling of a special meeting, the earliest the resolution could be approved would be March 16. Ths means all the heated words that will likely be said today will come up again.
One wild card if whether this will affect the timing of the magnet notification process.
The resolution calls for the immediate end of the use of socioeconomic diversity in filling magnet seats. Staff would probably have to wait until the resolution got final approval before running the selection program with the revised criteria.
According to the district's press release, applicants are supposed to find out March 18 whether they've been accepted. It's looking really tight now to make that deadline.
