I still wonder if we can get the board members - or maybe the democratic party - to pay for Mr. Tata's severance. Nope, us taxpayers are going to foot that bill.... I'm sure the Wake County budget had that extra surplus just waiting to be given away. Was his performance really that bad that we had to pay an extra $250,000 to stop him?

For those who talk about their premier schools in Wake County, they need to talk to my sister and brother-in-law about what happened when they moved their rising fifth grader from Brassfield to a school out of state in one of the best performing school districts in the country based on test scores.

Brassfield is one of the highest ranked elementary schools in Wake County.

Their daughter has been struggling all year to keep up, yet she made straight A's for K-4 at Brassfield in Wake County.

Wake County may be good but students from Wake County have a hard time adjusting to better schools in better performing counties.

Guess what, that county has 240,000 population with 24 elementary schools and has no magnet schools or socio-economic diversity (race) based busing.

This county has neighborhood schools and the only busing is within each school's attendance area.

Doing more research, Wake County has a reputation because of it's diversity program, not it's classroom performance.

How are so many of the Board members also State employees. I do not live in Wake Cty and want to be sure that we are not paying for their Wake cty service. As a former state employee I know they should be using leave time or leave without pay. Is anyone checking on this?

No..its not time to move on..as a parent to a special needs child Mr. Tata was a big supporter and was in the works of keeping our children on the front line instead of pushing them towards the back where they don't belong. Once again this is not fair for our children and oh yeah have you forgot all that money that is now wasted...another thing the majority knows how to do..waste my money..I say keep the heat on them!!!!

https://www.change.org/petitions/wcpss-school-board-reinstate-superintendent-tony-tata Sign this petition if you think the School Board handled this completely wrong. Show your support to Tony Tata! He was the only person who cared about WCPSS's children. The only person who EVER responded to my emails regarding the busing fiasco. Never got a single response from any one on the board... only Tata.

Well, gee.... we could start with the fiasco with the buses. Perdues fault

"He added that the decision was the result of an "epic failure" of the board and is not a reflection of Tata."

Really? Ya think??? The Wake County School Board is a joke! It's not because of Tony Tata! It's because there are a bunch of thumb-sucking, tantrum-throwing mor@ns on the school board! Tata never had a chance. So what are we gonna do? Start from scratch....again?????

I'm disappointed in this decision since we don't know anything about how it happened. I think any failure of the school district right now doesn't fall on the Superintendent, but on the BOARD.

And everyone here who is blaming one party or another is contributing to the problem. If you throw your bias for Democrats or Republicans or Libertarians or whoever - you're as bad as the board in my opinion. If you can step back and look at the facts and not holler and rant and rave about democrats suck or republicans suck, then we stand a chance to fix the problem. But as long as "you" make it as R vs D, the kids in the school district will never win.

Tata is gone and it is time to move on. There are many more qualified people for this job right in our area. School administrators should be people who have experience as educators in my opinion. As a former teacher, I know the plight of teachers today. Unless you have been in a classroom, you really can not understand the challenges teachers face from day to day educating young people. I still don't think Mr. Tata did such a horrible job considering his background is not directly educational operations. He is still much more qualified than Tedesco who is running for superintendent of public instruction. Regardless, it is time to move FORWARD and focus on educating the children of Wake County.

While I do enjoy the partisan hyperbole a cursory examination of information presented to the public would show cause example1:the old new REP( although technically non partisan) assignment plan provided for transportion & school choice. That plan also called for a change in school start times and a decrease in the number of buses and routes. That logic would allow for three houses lined up side by side in the same subdivision to choose three different elementary schools in three different areas of the county on three diff calendars with three different start times to have, at taxpayer expense three separate buses to drive those children to school. The result would be exactly what happened. Year round schools begin-no problem, modified calendar schools start,--- no problem, -- add traditional schools problem. Then rather than have the school board that approved the plan, and the Sup take responsibility, fire the guy in charge of transportation. EVERY school level employee saw this.

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