The school should not accept any new students for the next five years. No new schools for the next 5 years. Give them time to work out this new plan. You cant do much planning with new students being assigned or new schools being built. No more changes please.

So, what I have read on wake county website is that the teachers are getting a 1% raise of their supplementary pay, not their entire salary as this article leads you to believe. According to my paystub, I get $466 of local supplementary pay a month. Multiply that by 10 (10 month employee) and I make $4660 from local supplements. One percent of $4660 is $46.60.

Before the pay freeze, almost 3 years ago, teachers (on average) made about $1000 more every year. Not counting our '1% raise' next year, we will have not received raises for the last four years. That means, on average, Wake county/NC has withheld $10,000 for every teacher that has worked there during those four years. (1st yr - $1000 + 2nd - $2000 + 3rd - $3000 + 4th - $4000 = $10,000). So, instead of my $10,000 and a readjustment of the payscale, they are giving me $46.60. Yippee!!!!

"Hm, wonder how they justified the massive extra transportation costs for bussing kids to whatever school they want to attend? The new plan is ridiculously wasteful of our taxpayer dollars." - edith wharton

The new school choice assignment plan allows Wake County to save over $10 million dollars each year in transportation costs. By creating regional assignment districts of schools, the average route is reduced in distance and time. This also enables 3 bus routes to be run each morning & afternoon by each bus. This new choice plan not only allows Wake to save on gas but is allowing the district to sell over 100 buses that are no longer needed.

The average number of schools a neighborhood is bussed to is reduced under the choice plan. Under the old diversity plan children in my neighborhood were bussed to 8 different middle schools, under the choice plan this is reduced to 5.

no one will complain, march, interrupt, ... they're democrats.

Hm, wonder how they justified the massive extra transportation costs for bussing kids to whatever school they want to attend? The new plan is ridiculously wasteful of our taxpayer dollars.

"2) Constant reassignments were a real issue that the 2008 & earlier board did not address. Reassignments were driven by the huge increase of students and where new schools were built. The board did a bad job of explaining that." - babbleon

What you are not stating is that the old Democratic school board stated very directly in a public meeting that the constant re-assignments were due to the diversity policy and not growth. Growth can be handled by assigning new neighborhoods to new schools permanently, and not switching the students to a different school every year.

My children were forced to switch school nearly every year from K-12 under the diversity policy upheld by the old board in Wake. The diversity policy did NOT enhance or add value to education in any manner. Studies funded by Wake showed the policy did not improve outcomes.

It was long overdue to eliminate Wake County's failed diversity policy.

"Still, he voted to approve it."

I believe this is Mr. Hill's m.o. throughout his term as a board member.

There was never a chance for the community based schools to come into play. What I find amusing is apparently lots of people forgot that there was zero guarantee of any child going to the nearest school under the old system. whatelseisnew

Ok, let's get some facts straight:

1) Under the 2008 (pre-Tedesco) board, > 85% of the assigned students went to a school w/in 5 miles of home; 98% went to a school within 10 miles. Bussing was never a real issue - it was made up by Art Pope & his cronies to play on racial fears.

2) Constant reassignments were a real issue that the 2008 & earlier board did not address. Reassignments were driven by the huge increase of students and where new schools were built. The board did a bad job of explaining that.

3) If we assign students to the closest school, many schools would be 100% or more OVER capacity, while others would be under 75% capacity.

Keep these things in mind when you think about Wake Co schools, the budget and the new plan.

If the name was changed from Wake County Public Schools to Wake County Armed Services, they would throw money at it.

I never knew sending your child to a public school could be so complicated.

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