JLF’s John Hood weighs in on the actions of the new Wake County school board. Predictably, the new conservative majority is being attacked for following through on the campaign promises voters overwhelmingly endorsed. Why the attacks?
Because these adversaries consider their position to be morally superior, and their role to [...]
Chris Fitzsimon reports on Tuesday’s Wake County School Board meeting in his column “Lessons from round two with the gang of five.” This meeting had a much different tone than the first meeting.
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[...] I witnessed about two hours of yesterday’s six-hour Wake County School Board meeting. A couple of observations….
I noticed lots of teachers. Several rows of seated teachers were already present forty-five minutes before the meeting began. They had to arrive pretty early to get there….Gosh, aren’t there classes to teach?
I also noticed [...]
As Carolina Journal’s David Bass reports in this story, the new majority on the Wake County school board voted yesterday against taking bids for a performance audit of the system’s legal fees. They want a particular attorney — Thomas Farr — to do the work. While I like the [...]
I know the new school board members are busy with their duties, but I hope their extra-curricular reading has included some studies on the effect year-round schools have on the achievement gap. For all that they seem to find unworthy in the Wake County School System, they’re poised to mess [...]
Over the last few days, residents of Wake County, N.C. -- the site of a nationally watched battle over its school diversity policy -- have been receiving calls from phone pollsters asking for their views on the county's education future.
Yesterday, Facing South editor Sue Sturgis received one of the' [...]
Chris Kromm over at Facing South has an interesting post today. The gist: it appears that Pope-Civitas may have been engaging in illegal robocall polling to produce its latest slanted and misleading poll results. Read the whole post here.
P.S. Those interested in watching the [...]
In advance of the Wake County School Board meeting scheduled for later today, we went in the field yesterday with a flash poll to gauge Wake County voters’ opinions of the more contentious issues. And the results were pretty surprising. Those issues we thought were supposed contentious really aren’t. The [...]
You might remember a month ago after the Republicans swept the Wake County School Board elections that Clay Aiken came out and publicly denounced their plans to do away with “diversity” busing. His words caused him a minor controversy of his own as he was outed (yet again) as still [...]
The News & Observer reports this morning on the letter that Wake County School Board Chair Ron Margiotta sent to magnet principals assuring them that the new board has no plans to abolish the magnet program.
As Rob noted yesterday on the Pulse, the fears of magnet supporters are hardly unjustified. [...]
The newest members of the Wake County School Board have vowed to end the school system’s policy of promoting diversity by balancing percentages of low-income students within the public schools.
Now the State Superintendent of North Carolina’s Public Schools is weighing in.
June Atkinson says diversity is a critical component of a [...]
Compare and contrast these two items:
#1 – Raleigh’s News & Observer – May 13 2009:
Wake County School board member Ron Margiotta got some negative reaction from other board members last week when he proposed elimination of the district’s vaunted magnet program.”
#2 – Letter to magnet school [...]
In this edition of “Monday numbers,” Chris Fitzsimon gives some interesting facts about the Wake County School Board, its members and supporters.
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One doesn't have to do much digging to be reminded of how uninformed and ideological the far right can be when it comes to the public education. This week's remarkable events in Wake County (in which a newly elected group' [...]
Chris Fitzsimon attended the Wake County School Board meeting and shares his perspectives on the strong-arm tactics used by the newly sworn-in members in his column entitled “The dismantling begins.”
In his commentary “The press conference before the cart,” Fitzsimon chastises Gov. Bev Perdue for promising what she can’t [...]
Kevin Hill, who was replaced as Wake County school board chairman on Tuesday by the new majority, wants everyone to believe he was surprised he was replaced. Really?
Former chairman Kevin Hill, who was booted from his post Tuesday, said Wednesday that he was surprised by the demotion [...]
Here is some reading for the new members of the Wake County Board of Education who ignored the democratic process in their first meeting this week in their rush to dismantle the economic diversity policy used in student assignment.
The Washington Monthly features the Wake County schools [...]
For years he’s been a minority voice on the Wake County school board, but yesterday, Ron Margiotta was elected chairman of the board by the new 5-4 majority. The new board didn’t waste time taking action, much to the chagrin of other members. And what about the new members’ [...]
It’s been a long time coming, but at 3 p.m. today, the new Wake County school board will be sworn in. Four new members who campaigned against the current board policy of busing kids across the county to achieve economic “balance” will join Ron Margiotta as the new governing [...]
The four newest members of the Wake County School Board will be sworn in December 1st.
While they have pledged to lead the public schools in a new direction, the president of Wake Education Partnership says there’s much to consider before making sweeping changes.
Dr. Ann Denlinger discusses growth, diversity, and the [...]
Singer Clay Aiken of "American Idol" fame caused a bit of a stir recently when he voiced his displeasure with the new regime taking control of the Wake County Board of Education.
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The folks at the News & Observer covering Wake County schools apparently don’t have access to their own publication’s archives.
Monday’s front page story about the possible end of magnet schools quotes Ron Margiotta, who is likely to be elected the new board chair, saying that he [...]
