At the Board of Education meeting this past Tuesday, Chief Finance Officer David Neter walked the school board through the implications of the proposed House and Senate budgets and calmly explained the ramifications of each for the Wake County Public School System. Both the House and Senate budgets provide recurring funding for student growth across […]
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The Wake County Commissioners voted Monday to approve and adopt an amended budget. This budget provides a $44.6 million increase over last year\’s local fiscal support to the Wake County Public School System. The total amount of support for WCPSS will be $386 million. County Manager Jim Hartmann has described the budget as, “we are
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The Wake County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to approve an amended budget. This budget provides a $44.6 million increase over last year\’s local fiscal support to the Wake County Public School System. The total amount of support for WCPSS will be $386 million. An increase of $34.6 million for WCPSS initially was proposed by
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Read with a child from birth to the first day of kindergarten to create more than 130 hours of vocabulary development. Read 30-minutes per day and a child digests 900 hours of “brain food.” That equals a one-month head start compared to students who receive only weekly 30-minute reading session. But that doesn’t mean some
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Timing is everything! This has become such a familiar catch phrase that it’s sometimes easy to miss the real message. Many people consider it to be a reference to “luck” or to “being in the right place at the right time.” I prefer to think of this phrase as a reference to the importance of
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“We are asking for this grant to develop an outdoor, wheelchair-accessible, raised garden to expand the children’s knowledge of plants and earth materials.” That’s how North Forest Pines Elementary School special education teacher Rita Vermeulen started her request for a $1790 WakeEd Partnership Teacher Innovation Grant. She teaches special needs children who have severe intellectual
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