Great Schools in Wake Coalition - Every Child, Our Child

• TUESDAY, AUGUST 3rd, 3pm - BOE Work Session (no public comment). Focus on budget in preparation for finalizing on August 10th.

• TUESDAY, AUGUST 17th, 3pm - Regular Board Meeting with public comment

Money Watch! Updates - Your Guide to Wasteful Spending by the Board of Education Majority
See how your tax dollars are being spent with reckless abandon READ MORE

• In response to increased criticism of their policies, the new Board has spent 31 times more money on security - $14,000 in a five-month period compared to $451.58 for a five-month period by the previous Board-and this includes at least four armed police officers and more than six security officers at a regular meeting attended by fewer than 50 people in April.

• July 29: Great Schools Film Series: "To Kill a Mockingbird" Showing at 6:30p, Galaxy Cinema, 770 Cary Towne Blvd.

• READ & LISTEN: "50 Years On, 'Mockingbird' Still Sings America's Song"

• August 16th (Monday), 7-8:30pm Back-to-School Forum
  What You Need to Know About...STUDENT ASSIGNMENT...YOUR STUDENT'S LEGAL RIGHTS...YOUR STUDENT'S EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS

• July 19-Aug.19: The Wade Edwards Learning Lab's Summer Program - REGISTER NOW!
  

• September 25, 8am-1pm: Great Schools in Wake Fall Forum 2010

WAKE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD MAJORITY SILENCES PUBLIC, CONTINUES SPENDING SPREE: July 22, 2010
Growing Public Concern Over Lack of Transparency in Board Decisions 

GREAT SCHOOLS IN WAKE COALITION APPLAUDS PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS: July 14, 2010 Commitment to Excellence Reflected in Improved Student Achievement

• New Fact Sheet: Student Discipline
  Wake County Ranks High in Suspending Students, Needs Strategies to Keep Students Safe

• The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
  Read a report released by the Southern Education Foundation (SEF), which finds that a growing number of the South's students who live in extreme poverty-surviving on less than seven or eight dollars per day- attend public schools that spend the least on educational resources.

• July 20: BOE Meeting - Read the SUMMARY OF WHAT REALLY happened
  

• What You Need to Know About Student Assignment - Chuck Dulaney

• NOW AVAILABLE: Great Schools March 2010 Forum Videos

• Diversity Statement - Chancellor W. Randolph Woodson, NC State University
  "Because diversity is what makes our lives richer and gives us the chance to advance our university, NC State will continue striving to be more diverse in hopes of creating a culture that values empathy, respect, tolerance and equality for all.
  
  
• HIGHER EDUCATION IS CRITICAL TO SUCCESS IN THE COMING ECONOMY - New report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce - America is slowly coming out of the Recession of 2007 only to find itself on a collision course with the future: not enough Americans are completing college.

• Wake County Versus Mecklenburg County: A Comparative Analysis