I don't agree with the decision to fire Tata after such a short period of time and are also sick and tired of the partisan politics. Isn't it about time that this failed experiment of diversity across an entire county be scrapped? It's proven not to work. I have no idea how busing a student an hour away so they can sit in a diverse class helps them learn the basics of reading, math, and science. If this system was such a success than why isn't it replicated anywhere else? I understand that Charlotte and Atlanta trashed this failed social experiment previously. Let's face it, the district is too big to manage by one board and one superintendent. It's time to break it up and put the power of decision making closer to the families impacted. It's time to localize each issue instead of trying to fit a "one size fits all" approach to our educational needs. Where are the leaders on this issue and when are the rallies scheduled? It's time we start showing our displeasure in numbers.

Unfortunately, they bused the kids in the surrounding neighborhoods all over Wake County to make space for the affluent white kids from the suburbs - ConservativeVoter

Those schools are so highly focused on certain academic courses that they aren’t really suited to the average student regardless of race/economic standing. The problem was that that keeping up with housing growth outweighed the needs of current schools. That helped to create the current need for economic/educational diversity. Once they realized they were part of the problem they still separated those kids by sending one group to magnets and the others to take their spot in their schools. I still agree with busing to a certain degree but not on the extreme levels that they were on. Most new subdivisions aren’t that far away from lower income areas so they can keep some of it local and not way across the county. If they can upgrade more local schools then you eliminate a lot of the problems.

Stop the insanity....

grandmanp::::why the state is paying Keith Sutton $ 62,000 a year when a large part of his time is spent on Wake County school business. WRAL should do a FOIA request for his time sheets to see if he is using vacation time or unpaid leave when doing school board business.

Do you REALLY think WRAL is going to do anything that will hurt a democrat?

grandmanp

Let's be correct here. Burns didn't get fired, and he didn't "resign." He RETIRED. At the end of his employment, he began collecting a pension of over $150,000 a year. Most of us will never make that much as a regular salary. He's been double-dipping since then, earning nice money consulting for other school systems.

General Tata was FIRED. He gets nothing from WCPSS beyond his one-year exit package.

Show your support to Tony Tata! There is a petition that is ready for signatures. https://www.change.org/petitions/wcpss-school-board-reinstate-superintendent-tony-tata

Once again, Burns resigned. He wasn't fired.

Burns resigned because he was caught hiding from the school board the SAS study which said socio-economic diversity (race) based busing actually hurt academic achievement of minority students.

This went against Burns liberal and socialist agenda of diversity above all else including student academic achievement.

The Democrats need to understand that it's the schools only job is to educate our students.

It's not the schools job to right societies wrongs through social engineering including the failed socio-economic diversity (race) based busing program.

The Democrats support Diversity above everything else including student achievement.

""Considering the fact that the Wake County board of education had managed to stay non-partisan until Margiota and Tedesco were elected in a fluke election it is funny to hear the Republicans now cry 'foul.' The previous school board did not even give Del Burns an opportunity to try to work with them; they fired him almost immediately. The current board tried to work with Tata but the partisanship that was so rampant under the previous board was still front and center. He was not qualified for the job; it is just unfortunate that he was not fired for cause, resulting in the county having to pay him a severance. You can thank the previous Republican majority for the now-partisan school""

The school board has been partisan since at least 1996 when I moved to Raleigh.

The partisan Democrats have controlled it most of the last twenty years or more other than the two years the Republicans recently controlled it. Then the Democrats got control back and fired TATA.

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