Speculation had swirled for months whether Jeffery "JR" Richardson, who led the Broughton High School band to the prestigious Tournament of Roses parade in January, would retire at the end of this school year.

Only nine school districts in the state -- and just one in the Triangle -- had top-rated policies for parental involvement in schools, according to a survey released Friday.

Folks had been fretting for months about whether Jeffery "J.R." Richardson, who led the Broughton High School marching band to the prestigious Tournament of Roses parade in January, would retire at the end of the school year as expected.

Triangle Briefs: Kenneth E. Barnes, principal of Shepard Middle School, will move to Southern High School next year.

Christina Evans expected stark white walls and workers hunched in their cubicles.

Triangle Briefs: The Wake County school board on Tuesday promoted Danny W. Barnes to chief area superintendent. Barnes will oversee the school district's other area superintendents. He had been area superintendent of Eastern Wake County since 1999.

A state appellate court decision Tuesday means that beginning in the 2009-10 school year, Wake County will resume sending children to year-round schools even if their parents object.

Adam Meyer, 18, received the Student Leadership Award from the N.C. Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Center.

A team from Enloe High School finished in the top 16 on Monday at the National Science Bowl.

U.S. history since 1945, Riverside High School, Durham -- Taught by Bryon Booher

Triangle Briefs: The Wake County school board voted Tuesday to delay the opening of two elementary schools and use the money instead to pay for renovations at Wake Forest-Rolesville High School.

Triangle Briefs: The Wake County school board voted Tuesday to set $380.3 million as the starting amount it wants to use for developing a new, multiyear funding formula with county commissioners.

Wake County school board tentatively approves increasing budget request by $54.7 million.

This is the content of a letter sent home with students from Enloe High School from Principal Beth Cochran.

Moving from the comforts of a traditional school schedule to the fear of the unknown in a year-round school schedule can cause emotions that run from exciting to terrifying.

Frustrated over student reassignments, Garner town leaders have asked their attorney whether they can sue the county school board to keep more Garner children closer to home.

Wake school administrators will release the second-largest student reassignment proposal in the district's history today, the system official in charge of growth and planning says.

A Supreme Court case might consider Wake's decisions on race's role in school assignments.

The Wake County school district announced Thursday the dates and locations for three community meetings that will be held before the student reassignment plan is released.

Wake County Briefs: The Wake County school board approved a student reassignment timeline Tuesday that takes into account the conversion of 22 schools to a year-round calendar next year.

For months, several business and civic leaders have lobbied legislators and UNC leaders to turn N.C. Wesleyan College into the 17th university of the UNC system.

The Wake County school district has asked school board members to rank, in order of importance, the questions that would be used to determine which 16 to 30 elementary schools to convert to a year-round calendar in 2007.

Wake schools open the court of appeals today; hundreds of requests are likely.

To keep construction costs down, Wake County school administrators Thursday proposed putting every school on some form of year-round calendar. Their proposal would radically alter the lives of many families.