Tag Archives: WCPSS

#WCPSS Proposed Budget: $1.4 Billion… Yes, Billion with a B.

Posted on April 21, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

In case you missed it, the Wake County Schools Superintendent is proposing a $1.4 BILLION dollar budget. This budget represents a 14% increase over last year’s budget — including raising per pupil spending.
Wake Schools continues their great track record of notifying the public of important events by holding a public hearing…. tonight.

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Posted in EDUCATION, Wake County School Board | Tagged Budget, Jim Merrill, Wake County Board of Education, WCPSS | 1 Comment

About That “School To Prison Pipeline”…

Posted on April 1, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

News and Observer Ed blog has an article up quoting Wake County Board member, Jim Martin, on the alleged ‘school to prison pipeline’. The article cites the group “Education Justice Alliance” as taking exception to Martin’s comments.

There’s a punchline to Martin’s comments and the subsequent dismay by the Education Justice Alliance. He and the Wake School Board invited this ‘school to prison pipeline’ of attack in. Keep reading, you’ll see why.

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Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), BlueprintNC, EDUCATION, Racial Justice, Wake County School Board | Tagged BlueprintNC, Education Justice Alliance, school to prison pipeline, WCPSS | 2 Comments

#WCPSS Whiplash

Posted on March 11, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

If you’re a Wake county parent, you know about the snow day make-up debacle and the Wake County School Board has likely given you whiplash over it.

Wake County Schools (WCPSS) incurred 8 days of snow days in a two-week period in February.

The first round of make-up days sucked up early release days, teacher work days and for some tracked calendar schools, tacked on a Saturday class which was promptly canceled due to weather.

Traditional calendar schools make-up days, somehow, were harder to calculate.

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Pete Kaliner Show: ‘You’re a Monster for Parent Concerns’

Posted on February 14, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

In case you missed it yesterday, I went on the Pete Kaliner show to discuss the Wake County ‘book club’ controversy. Hit the 76 minute mark.

Pete and I discussed the media closing ranks to defend the schools, the Principal of the school’s statements not matching up with the documentation, the need for greater transparency in what materials schools are using and In terms of transparency, Pete noted that I seem to be ‘a monster for parent concerns’. The most important piece discussed was the question, how appropriate is this material for 9 and 10 year-olds?

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Concern Over 4th Grade Books? NC Media To The Rescue.

Posted on February 11, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

In the past week, books assigned to 4th graders at a Wake County school have made national headlines, but local media didn’t cover it until that happened.

Now that the story is out there and Wake County Schools are under the microscope, the coverage can arguably be characterized as ‘media to the rescue’.

Note the title at the News and Observer already sets the narrative, Some books at Cary school draw complaints from conservatives. Gosh, what assumptions will the reader make from that title, before they even read the article? One can gauge that just by reading the comments section.

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