Wake administrators need word on new schools.

Town leaders in southwestern Wake County are backing at-large elections of school board members, but the idea is running into opposition in northern Wake.

There's a price for abandoning plans to open three new elementary schools on a year-round calendar: As many as 1,500 additional students would have to be moved this fall.

Friday is last day to seek transfer.

Cary leaders voted Thursday to begin a countywide task force that will take municipalities' concerns to the Wake Board of Education.

Hundreds of Wake County elementary students may be forced to change teachers in midyear after the state Board of Education refused Thursday to let the school district operate with overly large class sizes.

Wake school board hears pleas but makes no big shifts in plan to move 6,464 students.

Despite a lack of proof, school leaders insist their nationally acclaimed policy of reassigning students to spread diversity helps keep schools strong.

The Wake school board says 370 more students need not switch schools.

The Wake County school board held off Friday on making major changes to the latest reassignment plan that could shuffle more than 6,800 students to different schools this fall.

Wake County parents could find out today just how successful their efforts have been at getting changes made to the student reassignment plan.

More than 70 parents signed up to speak at a meeting on Wake County schools' latest reassignment plan.

An effort to redistribute the numbers of low-income students is running into strong opposition from families at two Cary schools who question the value of moving children outside their community.

Growth isn't following the course Wake County school leaders expected, forcing changes in how they'll deal with crowding in the next five years.

School officials have decided, for the first time, not to mail letters to families telling them their children might be moved.

Triangle Briefs: Spots are still available to speak at three public hearings on Wake County's student reassignment plan.

Local officials, one Wake school board member at protest.

The decision on how Wake structures its school year will affect many students.

The plan introduced by school administrators on Tuesday calls for moving 6,824 elementary students to different schools this fall, up nearly 400 pupils from a December proposal.

Don't get too comfortable if you pulled your child out of a year-round school this year -- Wake County is hoping to drag you back.

Diversity concerns and geographic parity drive the crowded system's relocation draft. Essentially, schools around the county, which have had few low-income students, are being assigned students to make them more diverse.

Triangle Briefs: Wake County's year-round school fight will wind up back in court in January.

Triangle Briefs: Wake County school officials announced Wednesday an additional meeting for the public to provide suggestions for the next student assignment plan.

Fewer students than expected led to worries of changes at schools.

Wake County parents who have spent all summer worrying about the fate of their children's magnet schools should get an answer today. They may not like what they hear.

School system gets appraisal saying site is overvalued; commissioners won't vote on deal.

New enrollment figures show that the plan to change 22 Wake County schools to a year-round calendar might have actually hurt efforts to deal with overcrowding this year.