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5-15-12 Board Meeting Speeches 5-1-12 Board Meeting Minutes 5-1-12 Board Work Session Minutes 4-24-12 Board Work Session Minutes 4-24-12 Board Meeting Speeches 4-24-12 Board Meeting Minutes 4-18-12 Policy Committee Meeting Notes 4-11-12 Joint Meeting of the Wake County Mayors’Association and the Wake County Board of Education 4-10-12 Board Meeting Minutes 4-10-12 Work Session Minutes 4-10-12 Board Meeting Speeches 3-29-12 Joint Meeting - Wake County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education 3-27-12 Board Meeting Minutes 3-27-12 Work Session Meeting Summary 3-20-12 Budget Work Session Minutes		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

Critical Information		Money Watch
New! Watch the Replay - April 2012 School-to-Prison Pipeline Forum CNN Money: Living Near Good Schools Will Cost an Extra $200K 4-2012 Brookings Institution Report Links Higher Test Scores and Diversity New! NC Association of School Administrators Position Papers 2012-13 Charter School Funding & Policy Concerns School Calendar Concerns 2012-13 State Budget Concerns 12-1-11: Memorandum of Concern to BOE - Single Gender Academies Diane Ravitch: Hear Her Speech at Duke (10/3/11) Click here . STUDENT DISCIPLINE New Fact Sheet - Safe and Fair Schools School Zero Tolerance Kills Dreams, Hurts Economy New Issue Brief: School Suspension Developments in WCPSS 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?"		Money Watch is your guide to wasteful spending by the Wake County Board of Education. An under crowded school winds up with $700,000 modular unit? It doesn't add up! Proposed 2012-13 uses $28 million in WCPSS rainy day funds. What happens if we DO have a rainy day? Robbing the classroom again. Wake taxpayers write a blank check: five month, $110,000 renewable contract, and for what? $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.

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