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NEW! 1-26-12 Fact Sheet on Assignment Feeder Patterns 

HOT! GREAT SCHOOLS POSITION PAPER:
New Board Must Take Action to Stop the Largest Reassignment in Wake County's History

1-9-12 Press Release: GSIW Calls for Delay in Implementation of Student Assignment Plan

1-10-12 NAACP Endorses Delay of Assignment Plan 

Assignment Materials: 1-10-12 Board Work Session 

Assignment Materials: 1-3-12 Board Work Session 

Mobile Enrollment Locations to Help Families Choose Schools

Beginning Saturday, January 21, 2012 and continuing through Saturday, February 18, 2012, WCPSS student assignment staff will provide computers and assistance in helping parents choose at select locations in Wake County.

Details on locations and times, along with other community events where registration is available can be found at the WCPSS Web site

• 6-2-11 GSIW Weighs in on Blue and Green "Courses of Action"
• View the plans online
• Read our white paper: "Can Controlled Choice Solve Wake County's School Assignment Problems?"

Upcoming Events

Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 6:00pm
Community Mass Meeting: New Student Assigment Plan
Martin St. Baptist Church, 1001 E. Martin St., Raleigh
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All WCPSS meetings are held at the WCPSS Central Office, Crossroads I, 5625 Dillard Drive, Cary, unless otherwise noted. 

Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Board Work Session- Time TBD
Board Meeting- 5:30pm; Public Comment- 6:00pm 

Saturday, February 11, 2012
HK on J- Gather at 9:30am, march begins at 10:30am
Click here for details. 

• 1-10-12 Board Work Session and Meeting Minutes
• GSIW Named 2012 Indy Citizen Award Winner
• 1-3-12 Work Session Minutes
• 12-6-11 Board Meeting Speeches
• 12-6-11 Board Meeting Minutes
• NY Times Op Ed: Class Matters. Why Won't We Admit It?
• WCPSS Teachers #2 in Nation in Earning National Board Certification
• 11-22-11 Board Meeting Speeches
• 11-22-11 Work Session and Board Meeting Minutes
• NEW! July 2011 Landmark Study Reveals Startling Findings on School Discipline
  • Read the Press Release
  • See the full report
• A must read: Accreditation Review Report Says it All About the State of WCPSS

• 10-6-11 Wake County School Board Majority Spending Spree Continues
• 10-6-11 Supporting Cost Calculations
• 9-29-11 Troubling School Reassignment Decisions Foreshadow Future Chaos for Wake County Families
• 6-2-11 GSIW Weighs in on Student Assignment Courses of Action
• 5-13-11 GSIW Receives Redistricting Data
• 4-25-11 Great Schools in Wake Favors Comprehensive, Strategic Approach to Student Assignment
• More Press Releases

• School Zero Tolerance Kills Dreams, Hurts Economy
• New Issue Brief: School Suspension Developments in WCPSS
• Latest Edition! November/December Issue of the Discipline Dish!
• Study links school safety to achievement, relationships
• Learn more about student discipline/suspensions

• Why Keep Success a Secret?
• What's Happening in Charlotte Could Happen in Wake!
• Video: "Why Parents Across America?"

• $80K wasted on a parent calendar survey. Ron Margiotta said "We want parents to be polled..." Read more --- Watch video
• It wouldn't have been a waste if the BOE majority listened to parents, as they said they would. 94.5 percent of families surveyed were satisfied with their children's schools and calendar assignment. Why completely revamp our student assignment plan? Read more
• More tax dollars for lawyers, less for classroom education...a new request that an additional $25,000 be added to the amount that attorney Kieran Shanahan can bill the school system. Read more
  
• Another $5.6 million for the new Rolesville HS site, in addition to dollars lost on the abandoned Forest Ridge HS project. Read more
• The safest place in town the new Board has spent 31 times more money on security - $14,000 in five-months than the previous Board--including four armed police officers and more than six security officers at a regular meeting attended by fewer than 50 people in April.