Jun 26, 2016 | In Context
The Wake County School Board agreed to partner with two organizations that will bring a new partnership and expand an existing one to help build more community responsive schools. In two separate agreements, WCPSS will join forces with the YMCA to open an elementary...
Jun 26, 2016 | In Context
A new era of school construction planning is here. The Wake County Board of Education and the Wake County Board of Commissioners have agreed, after a year of intense collaboration, to a 7-year school construction plan that will keep school construction moving along...
Jun 26, 2016 | In Context
With no fat in the WCPSS operating budget, the only thing left to cut is muscle. Last week’s Wake County Commission vote to approve its 2016-17 budget left an $11.8 million deficit in next year’s proposed school district operating budget, which had planned for a $35.7...
Jun 21, 2016 | Newsletter
There’s a good chance that the careers today’s 4-year-olds will have don’t exist now, but when they graduate high school in 2030, they will need to possess the skills of those careers regardless. “(The future) will require more than just a multiple choice...
Jun 21, 2016 | Newsletter, Teacher Innovation Grants
It’s a question special education teachers at Hilburn Academy have to answer every year. How do you teach elementary school students with disabilities the concept of “fast?”   The challenge is that for many students with disabilities, going fast is a secondary...
Jun 21, 2016 | Newsletter
Think back to the first time you read a book on your own. Then recall the first book you really loved, maybe devouring it in one day or rereading it year after year. Now imagine you’d never had those experiences, never learned to read at a level that enabled you to...
Jun 21, 2016 | Newsletter
Think of your career ten years from now. You’ve received a promotion or two, increased your salary by more than 25 percent and now you’re in the corner office. You use your internal talent to steer your company to success. An internal talent force that will be...
Jun 14, 2016 | In Context
Just as the State Board of Education was set to approve revisions to the high school math standards, Sen. Jerry Tillman introduced a bill to switch the sequence of math instruction altogether. What’s at stake is the difference between the ways in which high school...
Jun 14, 2016 | In Context
The state and local budget processes are in their final stages, and there’s a great deal at stake on their final versions. Locally, there’s concern that over the difference between what the schools are requesting and what the county is offering. At the state level...
Jun 14, 2016 | In Context
People like to know who is number one. So there’s no surprise that many people were upset when the Wake County Board of Education last week approved a new policy which prohibited the naming of valedictorians and salutatorians at all of the district’s high schools. In...
