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Posted: January 24, 2008

School Board to Hold Public Hearing on Reassignment Plan

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Apex, N.C. — Parents have another chance tonight to speak about the Wake County Board of Education’s student reassignment plan.

A public hearing will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday night at Middle Creek High School in Apex.

More than 70 people have signed up to speak. In order to accommodate the large number, the Board of Education will divide into two panels and use both the school's auditorium and its gymnasium to hear citizen's comments.

Citizens who have not pre-registered may sign up between 6 and 6:55 p.m. at the door. Following opening comments from the board chair, speakers will be directed to the appropriate location for the hearings.

The school board has collected thousands of public comments about the issue. WRAL.com requested copies of the letters and has posted many of them HERE.

RELATED TOPICS: Wake County, Apex, Cary

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I read the parent comments attached to this story, and I don't see any new arguments against the reassignment plan. If I was a board member I wouldn't read letters with words in all caps, because I find that obnoxious.
Click to view my profile teach4er
January 24, 2008 5:59 p.m.
"GRAND EXPERIMENT " IS THE EQUALAZATION OF TEST SCORES.. Somewhere in the dark confines of WCPSS is a gold plaque which states, "Let no school be better than any other school" Dumb down the good ones and send kids with high test scores to bad schools.For this brilliant strategy, Mcneil won big shot of the year NATIONWIDE.That's why we go to private.
no.ral.old guy
January 24, 2008 2:35 p.m.
DrJ, I'd be interested in knowing what you refer to as their grand social experiment.
Click to view my profile Garnerwolf1
January 24, 2008 2:04 p.m.
To reply to the first poster, the "realistic" solution is to allow the kids to go to a neighborhood school and build new schools in new neighborhoods for new kids. In established areas, the total number of kids any given year is not going to fluctuate by huge amounts. The reason there is so much reassignment is to balance the "quota"....a POOR reason to reassign (and bus around for hours) the kids who are established at a school.
speedy
January 24, 2008 1:41 p.m.
Read some of those parent letters. Wants, haves, hates, and likes are all across the board. Just an observation. Some want YR but can not have it, or travel far to get it, some want traditional, some like their new assignment, some don't.
poohperson2000
January 24, 2008 12:34 p.m.
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