$44.6 Million to Wake County Schools: Wake County Commissioners Approve Budget

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The Wake County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to approve 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...

WakeEd’s New Partners Read Program

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Read with a child from birth to the first day of kindergarten to create more than 130 hours of vocabulary development. Read 30-minutes per day and a child digests 900 hours of “brain food.” That equals a one-month head start compared to students who receive only...

Why First Citizens Bank Invests in WakeEd

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Timing is everything!  This has become such a familiar catch phrase that it’s sometimes easy to miss the real message.  Many people consider it to be a reference to “luck” or to “being in the right place at the right time.”  I prefer to think of this phrase as a...

Building Collaboration by Planting Gardens

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“We are asking for this grant to develop an outdoor, wheelchair-accessible, raised garden to expand the children’s knowledge of plants and earth materials.” That’s how North Forest Pines Elementary School special education teacher Rita Vermeulen started her request...

Preparing for SummerSTEM

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Without teachers there would be no other professions. Teachers are tasked with guiding students to see beyond their current status to future careers.  The paradox for many K-12 educators is that they will prepare hundreds of students for various careers, while their...

How World Café is Changing Schools

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Five months ago, more than 100 businesses and educators gathered in a cafeteria to have a conversation. The official name for the event was the STEM and Global Studies World Café, sponsored by Biogen. The partnerships that came from the event have caused educators and...