Name: Wake schools to reduce social distance in the classroom
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Description: Wake County will go from having 8,000 elementary students back in the classroom to roughly 24,000 special-ed regional students and PreK-3 students. They'll also see the social distance requirement reduced -- from 6 feet to 3 feet.

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OF THE COUNTY CASE ACCOUNT AND TRENDS ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACES. >>> A BIG DATE FOR WAKE COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. IT GOT A THROUGH THIRD GRADE AGAIN PLAN A. THAT PUTS ALL THREE ROTATIONS OF STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM EVERY DAY. ACCORDING TO THE STATE PLAN, IT ALSO MEANS CUTTING THE REQUIRED SOCIAL DISTANCE AND HALF FROM 6 TO 3 FEET. MANY OF YOU HAVE CONTACTED US WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MOVE SO WE SENT LAURA LEVINE TO FIND THE ANSWERS. TO DO SOMETHING THAT HAS BECOME A PART OF OUR EVERYDAY LIVES. LEAVING A SAFE SIX FEET DISTANCE FROM OTHERS. AS YOU IMAGINE, THIS TABLE AS A DESK INSIDE WADE COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 3 FEET WILL BE CONSIDERED OKAY. >> Reporter: ON MONDAY, WAKE COUNTY WILL GO FROM HAVING 1000 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS BACK IN THE CLASSROOM TO ROUGHLY 20 FOR THOUSAND. >> WE STARTED WITH THE ROTATION. WE ONLY HAD ABOUT FIVE OR SIX STUDENTS IN MOST CLASSROOMS, IF NOT ALL CLASSROOMS AFTER THAT MY DAD WE STILL DO NOT FORESEE MANY OF THOSE CLASSROOMS BEING IMPACTED. >> Reporter: SOME CLASSROOMS, ESPECIALLY AT OLDER WAKE COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DO NOT HAVE A LARGE ENOUGH SPACE TO PROVIDE SIX FEET OF SOCIAL DISTANCING WHEN ALL KINDERGARTEN OR THROUGH THIRD GRADE STUDENTS ARE IN NEXT WEEK. >> YOU BELIEVE HOW CONTAGIOUS THE VIRUS IS THAT 3 FEET IS ENOUGH SPACE? >> WE WOULD OBVIOUSLY PREFER 6'2", BUT I THINK HE WILL BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THAT IN MOST CASES. >> Reporter: SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS SAID THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS FOLLOWED BCDC AND STATED GUIDANCE. AS FAR AS COMPLIANCE HE TELLS ME PARENTS AND TEACHERS HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB SO FAR TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT PROTOCOLS. SLICK AS THEY MOVE FROM CLASS TO CLASS AND GO TO THE BATHROOM OR GO TO THE WATER FOUNTAIN, ALL OF THOSE THINGS HAVE BEEN SCRIPTED OUT. >> Reporter: THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS COVID-19 DASHBOARD SHOWS 51 CASES AT SCHOOLS  AND IN PERSON INSTRUCTION STARTED. OFFICIALS WILL MONITOR THE NEXT STEP THE FACE TO RETURN AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AS NEEDED. >> WE WILL BE MONITORING. WE WILL BE WATCHING AND FORCING HOW THEY ARE PARTICULARLY LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS OF THE FIRST WEEK. >> Reporter: LAURA LEVINE, WRAL NEWS WAKE COUNTY. >> MOTHER IS ALSO TODAY THE FIRST GROUP OF FOURTH GRADERS AND FIFTH GRADERS RETURN ON PLAN B. THEY WILL REMAIN ON

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I'm meteorologist, Kat Campbell and the wr severe weather center, the wr weather alert day will go into tomorrow. We have seen our first round of storms clear the area, but overnight we expect more storms to move in between about three and 9 a.m. Those should be more widespread but with a little bit less energy in the atmosphere, the primary concern there would be damaging winds and then we'll have a low storm threat as we head into tomorrow afternoon. So let's take a look at future casts. Storms continue to clear out from the early evening round. We should be dry 1011 midnight. It's not until about three or 4 a.m. that we begin to see storms move into our western counties and those are going to be with us during the early morning hours. 6 a.m. Rain could be around on a pretty widespread basis, impacting the morning commute. We'll see a good chance for rain seven perhaps lingering into 89 o'clock. After that, we should start to see the rain pushing out and storm chances would be pretty low for the remainder of the day. But in the morning, beware of rain and storms at the bus stop. You may want to wait in the car with your kids if you're able to, especially if there's any thunder or lightning around. Meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner will keep you up to date on that starting at 430 tomorrow on wr news. So be sure to check in with her before you leave the house and head to the bus stop. The good news is storms clear out just in time for Saturday and Sunday. We'll still have some scattered storms around Friday afternoon. Saturday though, it is cooler. It's drier, not so humid. 74 partly cloudy, a 20% chance for rain. Very, very late Saturday night and most of us aren't going to see that 79 for Mother's Day on Sunday. It ends up being a beautiful and dry day for Mother's Day 59 at 8 a.m. 70 by lunchtime upper seventies for the afternoon. And we get a break from the big heat. No more nineties on our seven day forecast, high temperatures are going to be still above normal most days, but a bit closer to normal for this time of year in the seventies and eighties, at least Thursday remains a WRL weather alert day, at least during the morning hours. Friday, we've got some scattered storms a 50% chance. Those are more typical afternoon, summertime storms and then over the weekend things look pretty nice. Overall, the humidity drops in a significant way this weekend we stay pretty comfortable on Monday of next week, but late Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, we could see a soaking round of rain arrive. Certainly good news that we are seeing the rain around here. We just don't need these, the storm threat to go with it.

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Wake County Public School System Superintendent Robert Taylor and Wake County School Board members discussed the county's budget proposal for the district for the 2025 fiscal year. The meeting comes one day after Wake County Commissioners proposed a $49 million increase in funding for the next fiscal year.

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