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Wake County's schools face record growth and are expected to add more than 40,000 students over the next five years. Lots of decisions will have to be made about construction, bond issues, the school calendar and taxes. The resources here will help you learn about the choices facing the county and its citizens.
This represents our first effort at building an information-rich resource to help bring more context to topics in the news. Please let us know if it is useful and how it could be improved.
Read T. Keung Hui's WakeEd blog, with information about reassignment and other hot-button education issues in Wake County.
Thousands of Wake County year-round students opened a new school year on Tuesday amid state budget uncertainty that's leaving some classrooms with more than 30 children.
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