Tuesday, July 7 was the first day of school for almost forty elementary and middle schools in the Wake County Public School System. And on Tuesday, July 7, WCPSS was operating on an interim budget because the North Carolina General Assembly has not finalized a budget...
You may remember the calls for book donations earlier this spring. Those were a part of WAKE Up and Read’s second annual book drive. WAKE Up & Read exceeded their goal and collected well over 100,000 books at 150 collection sites around Wake County. They...
When the Senate’s budget was announced this week, comparisons to the House budget were immediate. The results of those comparisons were staggering. And WCPSS find itself in a familiar yet uncomfortable decision point. The Senate budget reduces teaching assistants by...
At the Board of Education meeting this past Tuesday, Chief Finance Officer David Neter walked the school board through the implications of the proposed House and Senate budgets and calmly explained the ramifications of each for the Wake County Public School System....
The Wake County Commissioners voted Monday to approve and adopt an amended budget. This budget provides a $44.6 million increase over last year’s local fiscal support to the Wake County Public School System. The total amount of support for WCPSS will be $386...
On Tuesday evening, the WCPSS Board of Education voted to raise the fee charged to students taking Driver Education from $55 to $65. The fee offsets the cost of Driver Education, and the $10 fee adjustment is allowed by state law (Senate Bill 744). At risk in the...
