In Context
WakeEd’s In Context newsletter is a monthly deep-dive into education issues impacting the Wake County Public School System.
Slowing Enrollment Growth Emerges as Opportunity for WCPSS
A national trend has caught up with Wake County Public School System that has caused district leaders to change the way they think about the future.The U.S. birth rate has declined in recent years, and it hit a 30-year low in 2017, according to...
Funding is Key to Achieving Success for Public Schools in 2019
Looking back over 2018, it was a good year for advancing good public education policies. Teachers received another raise, a compromise was reached which will reduce class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, and most importantly Wake County voters overwhelmingly...
WakeEd Urges Voters to Support the WCPSS Bond Referendum on Nov. 6
The schools will be built no matter what. The schools will be built If the bond referendum passes, and taxes will go up if the bond referendum passes. The schools will be built If the bond referendum fails, but taxes will go up even higher if the bond referendum...
WCPSS Student Assignment Affecting Fewer Families
Gone are the days of sweeping student assignment plans in Wake County Public Schools, but that doesn’t mean families are still concerned about where their kids go to school. The Wake County School Board heard from WCPSS staff on Sept. 6 about changes coming to...
There’s More to School Performance Than Grades for WCPSS
Most of the news of the past few weeks about school performance focused on the NC School Report Card grades, but a great story about Wake County Public School System’s school performance might have been easily overlooked. Data was presented to the Wake County School...
ESSA Driving Changes to State School Report Card Law
The North Carolina school grading formula will be changing again because the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires more detailed information. ESSA was enacted by Congress at the end of 2015, and many of its regulations are being developed now. NC...
Time To Put Read to Achieve Tests to The Test
With year-round school under way and traditional calendar school about to start in a couple of weeks, so begins another year of the Read to Achieve program. The 2012 law enacted by the NC General Assembly requires that all public school students in North Carolina must...
Math Standards Bill Dies, Achievement School Districts Bill Awaits McCrory’s Signature
There were two items that WakeEd was following in the short legislative session that we haven’t written about in a while. The first is the H657 bill, known as the Math Standards bill, and the second is H1080, the Achievement School Districts bill. The Math...
WCPSS Considers Its Options to Get To A Balanced Budget
By Margaret Leak, WakeEd Summer Intern Frustration. Disappointment. Aggravation. These were the emotions that were flying in the wake of the final state budget. Even though there were more dollars added to the budget this year for teacher salaries, it wasn’t...
Legislative Session Ends with Bang and Fizzle
Members of the General Assembly called this year’s legislative session “short,” but it was anything other than short when considering the number of education reforms addressed. Some passed, some failed. Either way, there’s harbingers for what’s ahead in next year’s...
Teacher Compensation Scale Adjusted, Performance Bonuses Added
In recent years, attempts to modify the teacher compensation scale have adjusted the scale in unfavorable ways. The most recent was to have salary plateaus so that teachers would only see an experience raise once every five years, unless the legislature adjusted the...
General Assembly Adds Flexibility to Teacher Preparation and Hiring
The budget also made attempts to address the growing teacher shortage by implementing a new Local Alternative Teacher Preparation Program, and by granting districts the ability to hire adjunct Career and Technical Education faculty. Lateral entry has been a way for...
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