Wake School Board Approves Reassignment Plan
Raleigh, N.C. — The Wake County Board of Education Tuesday approved a reassignment plan that would shift 10,762 students, including 8,003 elementary and 2,759 middle school students.
The plan also means that 22 existing elementary and middle schools will be converted to a mandatory year-round schedule beginning the 2007-2008 school year.
The changes to the board's Jan. 9 plan includes 7,422 base assignments, 2,335 year-round conversion assignments and 1,005 application year-round students moving to another year-round school. In most cases, students were moved to a school closer to their home.
The school board's decision to approve the plan by a 7-1 vote comes amidst ongoing funding problems between the Wake County Public School System and the Wake County Board of Commissioners.
School board Chairwoman Patti Head expressed regret that county commissioners "reneged on a promise," making it more difficult to accommodate student growth.
Commissioners voted on Monday to withhold about $4.7 million from a $970 million school construction bond that was allocated to year-round conversion, a major component of the reassignment plan.
"We're adopting this plan without any funding," said school board member Ron Margiotta, the only dissenting member of the board. "I can't understand how in the world we can adopt this plan without any funding."
"I think this is going to create a lot of disharmony in the school district," Margiotta added.
The school board has vowed to find ways to fund the year-round conversions.
The reassigned students would fill the additional seats created by the year-round conversions and fill five new schools, including three year-round elementary schools -- East Garner Elementary, North Forest Pines Elementary and Sanford Creek Elementary -- and two middle schools: East Cary Middle and Wendell Middle.
The school system anticipates an additional 8,500 students next school year.
The plan also means that 22 existing elementary and middle schools will be converted to a mandatory year-round schedule beginning the 2007-2008 school year.
The changes to the board's Jan. 9 plan includes 7,422 base assignments, 2,335 year-round conversion assignments and 1,005 application year-round students moving to another year-round school. In most cases, students were moved to a school closer to their home.
The school board's decision to approve the plan by a 7-1 vote comes amidst ongoing funding problems between the Wake County Public School System and the Wake County Board of Commissioners.
School board Chairwoman Patti Head expressed regret that county commissioners "reneged on a promise," making it more difficult to accommodate student growth.
Commissioners voted on Monday to withhold about $4.7 million from a $970 million school construction bond that was allocated to year-round conversion, a major component of the reassignment plan.
"We're adopting this plan without any funding," said school board member Ron Margiotta, the only dissenting member of the board. "I can't understand how in the world we can adopt this plan without any funding."
"I think this is going to create a lot of disharmony in the school district," Margiotta added.
The school board has vowed to find ways to fund the year-round conversions.
The reassigned students would fill the additional seats created by the year-round conversions and fill five new schools, including three year-round elementary schools -- East Garner Elementary, North Forest Pines Elementary and Sanford Creek Elementary -- and two middle schools: East Cary Middle and Wendell Middle.
The school system anticipates an additional 8,500 students next school year.
- Reporter: Dan Bowens
- Photographer: Bobbie Eng
- Web Editor: Kelly Gardner
RELATED TOPICS: Wake County, Wendell, Cary, Garner, Public Schools
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February 8, 2007 12:27 a.m.
February 7, 2007 5:24 p.m.
February 7, 2007 5:19 p.m.
Come on, let's PLEASE go back to what makes SENSE and keep our kids in our neighborhoods!!!! Busing them all over creation is a recipe for dropouts, expulsions, and other disasters. This insanity has GOT to STOP.
February 7, 2007 3:49 p.m.
I'm sick and tired of poor people getting lost in the shuffle, in the interest of Ramey Beavers' misguided sense of "diversity." He wasn't that interested in diversity when he was the principal at Cary High School and instituted every ban on interracial relations he could possibly get away with.
Yeah, some of us have long memories, Sir. You never know when your past is going to come back and bite you in the butt.
February 7, 2007 3:46 p.m.