RALEIGH -- Wake County school leaders and Rolesville Mayor Frank Eagles are clashing over a possible alternative site to a new high school in northeast Raleigh.
Criticism over rising costs for a proposed high school on Forestville Road led Eagles to urge county commissioners Monday to abandon that property in favor of one about a mile away on U.S. 401 near Louisburg Road.
On Tuesday, school administrators said Eagles' location was too small for their needs and had access issues because of its proximity to the proposed Rolesville Bypass. School leaders also said that abandoning the Forestville Road site now would delay opening a new high school in that part of the county by two more years to 2014.
