Wake County school officials say they approved all 1,159 requests from families to return to their base school for the 2013-14 school year.
Some critics of Wake's abandonment of the choice plan were skeptical that the district would be able to honor every request made during the January back to base declaration period. Their concerns turned out to be unfounded this year.
In addition, school officials say most of the people returning to base will have the same as or shorter bus ride times for this fall.
School officials say 1,023 of the 1,159 students whose requests were approved are eligible for bus service for this fall.
Of that number, 841 of the 1023 students will have the same or shorter bus ride by attending their base school:
* 14 students will have their ride shortened by 15-20 miles.
* 35 students will have their ride shortened by 10-15 miles.
* 96 students will have their ride shortened by 5-10 miles.
* 672 students will have their ride shortened by 1/10 mile – 5 miles.
* 24 students will have the same ride distance.
School officials said they'd guarantee approval of back to base requests unless they had to reject them for capacity reasons.
Families who missed the Jan. 7-14 window for the base declaration period can apply during the first transfer application period that starts Monday. But school officials say those requests won't get the same high level of priority they would have gotten back in January.
There would have been various reasons people would have filed a back to base request. You could have had a family wanting to leave a magnet school or a school they had gotten a transfer to attend. Families who didn't get what's now their base school in the choice plan last year may have applied too.
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did we really just do this?
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 13:06 — snordoneDid we abandon the choice plan so that 0.7% of the families in Wake County could return to their base school? That is less than 1% of families.... Keung, you know I think you are great, but I would love for this county to see numbers put in the big picture.
This is truly insanity.
They didn't abandon the
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 13:34 — shearertwThey didn't abandon the choice plan for this....the choice plan was abandoned for the nightmare that is to come next year the years after that. it was also abandoned for the threat it posed to the magnet program.
I know you are right but remember
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 22:27 — snordonetheir argument - that there were so many displaced families who hated the choice plan, it was disruptive, it was confusing. But in the end <1% of families requested a move backwards. What the hell do they do with the 99.3% of families who just said "leave me alone?" Are they seriously going to move these people? So we know the answer - it is yes. They will move these people, or at least they will try. But the landscape is different, charters will be sprouting like weeds, and in 5 years it won't be an anomaly to see schools at 50% capacity (we already dealt with 60%).
Their magnet system is not sustainable with the hemorrhaging that will come.
I figured you knew
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 23:54 — shearertwI figured you knew that...just trying to make a point. They're just making up excuses as they go along to justify their end game. Their going to try and keep as many people as snowed as possible for as long as possible. You and I can see where this will ultimated end up because we have vision and are blinded by ideology or our own arrogance.
When these fools won their elections in 2011, I said that any hope of WCPSS ever being a good school system for my kids is lost. My youngest is in the 2nd grade. Even if there is a change over of the BOE in the next election, and that is not guaranteed by any means, the the school system will still decline for 2-3 years because of the damage this crew has done. We'll most definitely have a non-reformer Sup hired by these idiots that we'll have to get rid of and all that will lead to another couple years of chaos. By then, my 2nd grader will be in the 8th grade. If all goes perfectly, the school system may begin to improve at that point but it will not become a good system in just a few years so my youngest will be graduated by then. That is why I continue to say we should just break up the system now. I hear a lot of people with kids say that would be best but don't want to do it for fear it will create chaos for their kids in the system now. I say we have chaos and a crappy school system, lets bite the bullet...take one for future WC children and families and get it done now. That is the only way our children in the system now may at least have some hope of experiencing a decent school system for a few years.
Duplicate
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 23:57 — shearertwDuplicate
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Wed, 02/13/2013 - 13:16 — SideburnsThey could have easily done that under the Choice plan - but Tata was transparent and honest. Overcrowding our schools to placate some magnet families and to allow the School Board the ability to tout that they placed everyone is ridiculous.
I've already heard grumblings from families whose tradt'l calendar option is full and are being pushed farther away from home. Why haven't we heard about them?
No
Tue, 02/12/2013 - 12:50 — KeungHui (author)No
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Tue, 02/12/2013 - 11:40 — SideburnsAny capacity reports to go along with this?
Those reports are as mysterious
Tue, 02/12/2013 - 17:05 — FSandYOUand non-existent as Bigfoot aren't they.
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Tue, 02/12/2013 - 17:43 — SideburnsAs I'm sure you're aware, my concern is that they have now overcrowded schools to achieve the perception of seating everyone nicely in their base assignment.
Keung - are any schools capped for 2013-14 yet?
Of course they have
Tue, 02/12/2013 - 20:50 — FSandYOUWith the Martin & Evans Fib Show it's always about the smoke & mirrors.
But things are looking up!
The soon to be 7-2 majority will take us back to the Head-Millberg We-Hate-Parents and Families Era!
Times Ten!!
Not yet. We'll see if it's
Tue, 02/12/2013 - 19:30 — KeungHui (author)Not yet. We'll see if it's on next week's school board agenda.