Wake school board, commissioners to meet on school bond

Raleigh, N.C. — Leaders of the Wake County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education will meet next week to discuss a potential $1 billion bond referendum to build 25 new schools over the next ten years.

Both boards recently elected new leaders – Keith Sutton to the school board and Joe Bryan to the county commission.

The school board says school construction is needed to ease overcrowding and prepare for the projected influx of 3,000 to 5,000 new students entering the school system each year.

In September, former County Commission Chairman Paul Coble put off any discussion of the school construction bond after the school board's controversial decisions to scrap its "controlled-choice" student assignment plan and to fire Superintendent Tony Tata.

Bryan, however, said last week that working with the school board is top on his priority list.

"It's my goal to re-establish and restore important partnerships with the school system as we move forward on education bonds for next fall,” he said in a statement.

The meeting is scheduled for Dec. 21.

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No way a school bond will pass

heisenberg
December 12, 2012 11:22 a.m.

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A_Patriot
December 12, 2012 11:02 a.m.

I will vote NO on any bond for wake county schools as long as the current board members are on the BOE.

common_sense_plz
December 12, 2012 10:37 a.m.

Vote "NO" and then ask the County Commissioners to cut all funding to the public schools. Reminds me of when I was a child and I got mad with my parents and I wouldnt eat dinner. I wasnt a rocket scientist but I soon realized that the person I was hurting the most was myself. It takes 3 to 5 years to build a school so this is not a fast fix. If the need for new schools is really there whether you vote for a bond issue or not wont make any difference. The CC will give the schools the money and raise property taxes. This is just far more than just Tata who wasnt qualified to run a 3rd class dog fight. How about Dr. Burns, the board put him on administrative leave and paid him 150k. I never read anything from the principals or support people when Tata was released. Just hope they stop all funding to the schools and they will have to close their doors to public education.