North Carolina is at an important crossroads in how it pays for its K-12 public schools, and dramatic change may be on the horizon. The 2017-19 state budget that was signed into law last month created a special legislative committee, known as the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform, to study the way […]
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Being an investor in WakeEd Partnership is one of the best ways I can personally and professionally give back to support a school system I value and a community that I am so proud to call home.
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The Wake County Commissioners voted 5-2 today to adopt their budget with $21 million in additional funding to Wake County Public School System for the 2017-18 school year. That amount was $5 million higher than the $16 million increase originally proposed, but still lower than the $45.2 million in new local funds that the school
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The NC House of Representatives released its version of the state budget today with several important initiatives that were not found in the Senate version of the budget, but there’s no language in the bill about pay for teachers, principals and assistant principals. Perhaps the most important language in the budget is the way school
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As the question about class size requirements in grades K-3 lingers, the Wake County Public School System is preparing to add about 460 new elementary classroom teaching positions. How the school system reaches that number is possible through several different scenarios, according to Superintendent James Merrill. He presented multiple options to restructure the school system
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What, really, is the point of a school performance report? This is the question that hasn’t been answered in the discussion about school accountability. Is it to measure the teaching quality so parents know if their child’s school is really a good school? Or is it a self-assessment measure for schools to look at their
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