A swearing-in ceremony, the jumpstarting of a new middle school in northwest Raleigh and more criticism of the Wake County Commissioners is likely in store at today's Wake County school board meeting.
The school board will vote on approving the N.C. School Boards Association's 2013-14 legislative agenda and on approving the NCSBA resolution opposing allowing counties to take over ownership of school facilities.
During the discussion at the work session and the vote in the regular meeting, you'll probably hear more complaints about the Wake commissioners having requested the state legislative changes.
Still no official word yet on who the school board will hire as the lobbyist to fight the changes in the General Assembly.
The board will also vote on staff's recommendation to allocate design money to M-8, the middle school that would be built near Leesville Church and Strickland roads. This would speed up the school's opening, provided a bond issue is passed this fall.
There will also be the swearing-in ceremony and reception for new board member Tom Benton.
UPDATE
Click here to view the NCSBA 2013-14 legislative agenda.
Click here to view the NCSBA resolution opposing transfer of school ownership to county governments.
Comments
Let them complain all day if they like
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 15:18 — FSandYOUTheir whining won't change a thing.
This time!
Keung,
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 12:58 — louiselee44Please post a link to the NCSBA's legislative agenda. I just read it, and cannot believe some of the statements that are stated as 100% fact, when they're not.
Oh...
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 15:29 — louiselee44Thanks!
I love this quote...
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 16:53 — Bob_Sconce"Students need an instructional calendar that optimizes retention, minimizes disruption, and allows concepts and ideas to be fully developed and explored."
If the WCPSS school board is going to adopt THAT position, then it needs to reevaluate block scheduling in the high schools. A year-long break between math courses hardly 'optimizes retention', and a 3 month break between a fall AP course and the spring AP test hardly "minimizes disruption."
I agree - and thank you!
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 22:35 — louiselee44Block scheduling is at the heart of more than one problem facing high schools. Some systems have "seen the light" and have gone back to non-block. A year-long break between the next level of a foreign language course is a joke as well. Yet, they insist that 10 weeks of summer destroy everything they've built upon (statistics do not back this up, BTW).
Once this boards calms down from their power being yanked
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 20:29 — FSandYOUand a few other things not going their way in the near future, they are going to have no choice but to come forward with a plan to handle the massive overload at most high schools.
Bond failure is inevitable and the year round calendars all dump right into non-year round high schools that are busting at the seams.
It's been threatened for years, but they are going to have to do something. Summer jobs, sports programs, the excuses won't matter. Fed and State funds are getting cut, are going to get deeper, much deeper, and the public will not offer up any help by agreeing "willingly" to hand over more money to an out of control school board.
Especially with economic conditions about to get much worse.