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...
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...
Some things that should be easy turn out to be unnecessarily complicated. That’s what the WCPSS Board of Education is experiencing as it tries to set the traditional school calendar each year. In 2011, the General Assembly passed a law that limited the traditional...
Studies of high school drop-outs have long shown that a significant number of students who leave high school before graduation do it because they can no longer attend school during the regular school day. WCPSS, like all other school districts, has not been able to...
Financing school construction is a coordinated dance number with WCPSS and Wake County government as dance partners. But it will be difficult for WCPSS when other partners want to cut in. The WCPSS School Board and the Wake County Commissioners met in a joint session...
Twenty heads are better than one, so the saying goes, right? No? Well, it worked for the members of the WCPSS Board of Education and the senators and representatives from Wake County as they get ready for the short legislative session that opens today. The two groups...
