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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.
Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL education reporter
As the community grapples with the deadly stabbing at Southeast Raleigh High School, the National Conference on Active School Threats begins Wednesday in Raleigh.
Data shows that Southeast Raleigh High School, site of student's stabbing death on Monday, has a far higher rate of criminal acts and arrests than the rest of Wake County or the state of North Carolina.
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.
Ali Ingersoll and Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL reporters
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.
The school board voted Tuesday to move the $75 limit to a final vote later this month. The suggested change is part of an ethics policy designed to keep teachers from accepting gifts that might pose a conflict of interest.
Moving students to different schools is a regular part of the school experience in fast-growing Wake County. Many parents object to a new plan that could affect thousands of students. School system officials say their hands are tied.
Wake County officials are investigating threats that appear to be a hoax at two area high schools.
Wanza Cole died Tuesday, when her car slammed into four vehicles, stopped at a light on Western Boulevard. In the day since the crash, tributes to Cole have poured in.
Eric Miller, WRAL reporter
Family members are remembering Wanza Cole after she died in a crash on Western Boulevard in Raleigh on Tuesday.
The board is floating a new policy for parents that also includes the new, so-called Parents' Bill of Rights.
What is considered an insult would be up the board member running the meeting, though Board Chairwoman Lindsay Mahaffey says she's more interested in protecting audience members than board members.
