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Wake County Schools
James Merrill, superintendent of Virginia Beach City Public Schools, was named Tuesday night as the new superintendent for Wake County schools.
A proposal to redraw Wake County's school board districts for the second time in four years is headed for the House floor after a party-line vote in House Elections Wednesday.
Three final candidates hoping to lead the state's largest school district as superintendent answered questions from community members Tuesday in a public forum at Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh.
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April Perry, a first grade teacher at Siler City Elementary School, is WRAL's Teacher of the Week.
The Wake County Public School System is inviting the public to meet the three finalists hoping to lead that state's largest school district Tuesday evening at a forum in downtown Raleigh.
Wake County Board of Education members will likely decide Tuesday which building projects are most important for the county. They'll fine tune that list during their weekly meeting.
Staff Sgt. Robert Benson surprised his sons recently at Rankin Elementary School in Greensboro.
Wake County commissioners and board of education members met Thursday morning to continue discussions about $940 million in funds that would help build more than two dozen new schools in the county.
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