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Wake School Board Race Will Use 2011 Maps; 4 Incumbents Run Unopposed
In August, Judge James Dever III ruled that the 2011 maps would have to be used for the 2016 election, however this was an ‘interim’ remedy. Dever’s order leaves room for legislators to take another whack at redistricting when they return to the General Assembly.
As a result of Dever’s ruling, all nine school board seats will be on the ballot in November, however now four are running unopposed. Each of those elected will serve two-year terms and this election is by plurality, meaning there will be no run-off races.
SEE WHO IS RUNNING… FIND YOUR DISTRICT Continue reading
Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Campaign 2016, ELECTIONS, LEGAL, Voting, Wake County School Board
Tagged Wake County School Board, WCPSS
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WCPSS Board Justifies Cuts Effecting Classrooms While Making Multi-Million Land Purchase
Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) has a budget of over $1.4 billion dollars. WCPSS’s board has been wrestling with a budget gap of around $17.5 million.
In order to balance the budget, the WCPSS board has compiled a list of budget cuts. The vast majority of these cuts will impact the classroom directly. It appears the board has chosen the route that would yield the most pain for students and teachers.
Meanwhile, the board approved purchasing a car dealership’s property near downtown Raleigh to the tune of over $6.3 million dollars. Continue reading
Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), EDUCATION, Wake County School Board
Tagged Wake County Board of Commissioners, WCPSS
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Math Is Hard for #WCPSS’s Tom Benton
Wake County School Board member, Tom Benton, might be a Common Core math victim. Recently Benton told the News and Observer that per pupil spending was still “behind the 2008 level”:
“When we look at the amount of money per student, we are still behind the 2008 level,” said Wake County school board chairman Tom Benton. “The money from the state government has not kept pace with the growing student population.”
Is that true? What does the Department of Public Instruction’s (DPI) statistics say?
If you strictly go by DPI’s Fast Fact numbers which ignore the 5 year average capital dollars, then yes it would be. What is also lagging is federal dollars. Local dollars, however, are pretty close. Continue reading
Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), EDUCATION, Wake County School Board
Tagged Per Pupil Spending, WCPSS
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Homeschooling Still Booming In NC, Up 34% Since Implementation of Common Core
Homeschooling numbers are up again in North Carolina.
The number has jumped by 11,415 more students than the previous year and represents the largest number of students homeschooling in the state history. That’s a 10.7% increase over the previous 2014-15 school year.
Posted in Common Core, EDUCATION, Homeschool, Wake County School Board
Tagged Common Core, Homeschool, WCPSS
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Report: Wake County Schools Cutting Bus Routes Again
A report via Jon Camp at ABC 11 details that Wake County Public Schools are looking to cut bus routes again this year. The report says they want to cut out around 3,000 of the current 25,000 routes.
I was semi-vocal about this last year, but if it happens this year I won’t be quietly emailing behind the scenes.
Get your act together, WCPSS. Stop blaming budgets and drivers. Stop cutting routes to save money at our student’s expense because you can’t work out a billion dollar budget.
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Wake Supt. Email: Cuts to Teacher, Student Budget Items but 3% Increases to ‘Support Staff’
Wake county school officials appear unable to work with an increased budget of over $1.4 billion dollars according to an email to staff obtained by this site penned by the Superintendent of Wake County Schools and David Neter, Chief Operating Officer.
The emails detail the cuts to school level services to ‘close the $17.5 million dollar budget gap’ while simultaneously indicating a 3% pay raise and a half percent bonus for non-teaching support staff. Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, Wake County School Board
Tagged Budget, Jim Merrill, Wake County School Board, WCPSS
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