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The Wake County Public School System needs to make changes to prevent violence in schools, board members said Tuesday.
Vice Chairman Chris Heagarty replaces Chairwoman Lindsay Mahaffey, who has served two one-year terms in the role. Board policy limits chairs from serving no more than two consecutive one-year terms.
Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL education reporter
The fight and stabbing that led to the death of 15-year-old Delvin Ferrell could have been prevented. That's the message from one woman to school leaders during a forum inside the high school where her grandson was killed a week ago.
Matt Talhelm, WRAL reporter
Wake County Public School leaders have not responded to WRAL News after being asked if Southeast Raleigh High School was warned about potential violence the day a student was stabbed to death.
The Wake County Board of Education is scheduled to hold its first regular board meeting Tuesday since the Nov. 27 stabbing death of one of its students on a high school campus.
The school board's meeting comes one day after a community forum at Southeast Raleigh High School, where the stabbing occurred, also attended by board members.
One week after the deadly stabbing at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, the community had the chance to talk to school leaders about the tragedy.
On Monday, families whose children attend Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School will be able to ask questions about a deadly school stabbing. One week ago, 15-year-old Delvin Ferrell was killed, and another student was injured.
Kendrick Scott, the Wake County Public School System senior director of safety and security, spoke about school safety days after police a fatal stabbing at Southeast Raleigh High School.
As the community grapples with the deadly stabbing at Southeast Raleigh High School, the National Conference on Active School Threats begins Wednesday in Raleigh.
Students are reported for possession of non-firearm weapons about 20 times as often as they are for firearms. But schools are still relatively safe places, and many crime statistics in schools have been improving for years, experts say.
The Wake County school board went into closed session Tuesday to evaluate security issues a day after a student was fatally stabbed during an altercation at a Raleigh high school.
Data shows that Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, site of a student's stabbing death on Monday, has a higher rate of criminal acts and arrests than the average Wake County school and North Carolina school.
Ali Ingersoll, WRAL investigative data reporter
Delvin Ferrell was the teenager killed in a stabbing on Monday at Southeast Raleigh High School. Friends will remember Ferrell with a balloon release on Wednesday evening.
Chelsea Donovan, WRAL reporter
There will be no school Tuesday at Southeast Raleigh High School. Students, staff and families will be taking time to process the stabbing that happened there less than 24 hours ago. One student is dead, another is in the hospital and a third is charged with murder.
New security measures are under review at Wake County Schools on Tuesday. A safety committee is meeting one day after a deadly stabbing at Southeast Raleigh High School, but the meeting was scheduled prior to this incident.
Emily Walkenhorst and Ali Ingersoll, WRAL reporters
A grant from the Carolina Panthers expands high school-based girls football to the Triangle.
The board voted Tuesday night to make it so they can direct someone to stop speaking if they start insulting other people in the room. As societal culture wars have infiltrated schools, some speakers have made comments about one another during meetings.
Wake County families are expected to learn Tuesday whether they will be reassigned next year to a new school.
Affected families can apply next week to stay at their current school. What school board members had to say about the changes
Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL education reporter & Julian Grace, WRAL anchor/reporter
Families can apply through January for one of five new design-centered magnet programs in eastern Wake County.
The Project SEARCH internship program helps Wake students with disabilities prepare for life after high school. It's one of a handful statewide.
A dozen parents spoke out against the school system's proposed changes to assignment zones during a public hearing before the school board.
The policies are pulled from Senate Bill 49, also known as the "Parents' Bill of Rights," and concern student surveys and access to certain information.
