With year-round school under way and traditional calendar school about to start in a couple of weeks, so begins another year of the Read to Achieve program. The 2012 law enacted by the NC General Assembly requires that all public school students in North Carolina must be reading on grade level by the end of […]
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Lately, WakeEd Partnership has worked to advocate for Wake County Public School System around the latest budget. In June, President Steve Parrott and I attended a meeting of the Wake County Commissioners to advocate for fully funding the budget for WCPSS (Video below). In the end the County Commission voted to approve a 2016-17 budget that left
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As a pre-service teacher, I went into SummerSTEM unsure of what I might gain from the experience. The two-week program immersed more than 100 educators from 50 Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) K-12 schools in local STEM companies to improve project-based learning (PBL). This was the second year WakeEd Partnership worked with WCPSS to
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I’m pleased to announce that our annual Stars of Education Dinner/Gala, presented this year by PNC, will take place on October 12 at the Raleigh Marriott City Center. This event celebrates and honors educators, business volunteers and community leaders who form the backbone for a strong school system in Wake County. We’re expecting another sold-out
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UNC REX Healthcare supports WakeEd Partnership because the vitality of our market, Wake County – and our own success as a major employer and recruiter of talent – depend upon quality, effective public schools. As the son of a long-time public school teacher in Forsyth County, I saw firsthand the difference that a committed and
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There were two items that WakeEd was following in the short legislative session that we haven’t written about in a while. The first is the H657 bill, known as the Math Standards bill, and the second is H1080, the Achievement School Districts bill. The Math Standards bill was a late addition to the legislative
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