Hearing dates announced for reassignment plan
Published: Tue, Nov. 18, 2008 05:31PM
Modified Tue, Nov. 18, 2008 05:34PM
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closeRALEIGH -- Wake County school board members announced today the dates and locations of the public hearings that will be held in January on the student reassignment plan.
Meetings will be held Jan. 5 at Apex High, Jan. 8 at Southeast Raleigh High, Jan. 12 at Millbrook High, Jan. 14 at Fuquay-Varina High and Jan. 15 at East Wake High. They will run from 6:30 to 9 p.m. for parents to talk directly to board members about the plan.
The meetings will be held after the board gets a revised reassignment plan on Dec. 16. The board will hold a work session on Jan. 22 before voting on Feb. 3.
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Before the board gets the plan, school administrators will hold five public meetings on a draft plan that was released Saturday. Meetings on the draft plan will be held Thursday at Knightdale High, Dec. 1 at Cary High, Dec. 3 at Wake Forest-Rolesville High, Dec. 4 at Holly Springs High and Dec. 8 at Broughton High.
The draft plan, which can be viewed at www.wcpss.net/assignment-proposal, would move 26,771 students over the next three years. Parents can comment online through Dec. 10 or speak at the meetings. More than 1,000 online comments have been made.
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