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.