School choice window closing
Time could be running out for Wake County families to try to avoid attending a year-round school this summer.
Wake group supports school site rezoning
A group that advises the City Council on land use issues voted Thursday to support the Wake County school system's request to rezone the area around a controversial proposed high school.
Parents out to shake up the schools
Parents and elected officials from across Wake County came together Thursday evening to mobilize and discuss how to find and support school board candidates who will back community-based schools.
Why we'll fight the school board
There could be some additional long-term consequences to the latest student reassignment battle with the Wake County school system.
Wake board adopts school plan
Reassignment map is anything but a done deal.
Reassignment critics mobilizing for election
Opponents of Wake school reassignment plan to fight back with ballot.
Lacy students will still move
School board OKs other changes.
Brother, what a relief: sibs stay united
More Wake County students will likely be able to stay at their current schools without being separated from their brothers and sisters.
Mother fights 15-mile bus ride
Diversity to help keep Wake County schools integrated and academically healthy has a cost that Beteena Person says her Southeast Raleigh neighborhood shouldn't pay.
Southern Wake parents fume over reassignment
Southern Wake County parents demanded the right Wednesday to keep their children at schools in their communities.
Reassignment revisions irk some parents
Wake County's revised student reassignment plan has come as an unpleasant surprise for hundreds of families who thought they were safe when they weren't in the draft proposal.
Reconsider school plan, parents ask
About 400 Northern Wake County parents, students and teachers demanded Monday that school officials take another look at reassignment.
Minorities quiet on school plan
Black and Hispanic families have had relatively little to say about Wake's reassignment proposal.
Wake school plan gets shot of praise
In a rare display of public support, nearly half the speakers at Thursday's public hearing praised the Wake County school system's controversial student reassignment plan.
Wake parents seek changes in reassignment plan
Parents, students and elected officials pleaded with Wake County school board members Monday to change a plan that would move 25,486 students to different schools over the next three years.
Reassignment 'a high calling'
Dulaney figures out puzzle every year.
Wake school plan goes on firing line
Expect the rhetorical fireworks to flare again tonight as parents, students and politicians opposed to the Wake County school system's much-criticized student reassignment plan attend the first of five public hearings.
Vexed parent seeks answers, politely
Learning the lingo helps, mother says.
Couple frets about effect of proposal on 3 daughters
Several years ago, when his oldest daughter was going into middle school, Jim Daley decided to retire from the Marine Corps. He and his wife, Raelene, decided all that moving around couldn't be good for their children's education.
Armed with the facts, parents can get involved
Q: What's so different about this year's plan?
Plan would separate sisters and 'fracture our family'
Katherine Green is in her first year at Apex High School. Her sister, Melissa, is in her last year at Lufkin Road Middle School.
Plan to move students provokes parents
As growth brings more students and new schools, the process of reassigning Wake County's more than 130,000 public school students has become as much an art as a science.
Is summer vacation the law?
N.C. Supreme Court hears Wake suit over mandatory year-round schools.
Parents howl, reassignments cut
Intense public lobbying helped shrink the size of a plan that calls for moving more than 25,000 Wake County students to different schools over the next three years.
Broughton's magnet status to get revote
Families who favor sacrificing the Wake high school's magnet program in hopes of not being moved out of the school have so far dominated the debate.
Wake parents oppose reassignment
Wake County parents demanded on Monday that their children be allowed to go to high schools close to where they live even if it means being split apart from their middle school friends.
Reassignment hearing has SRO crowd
There was standing room only in Cary High School's auditorium Monday night as hundreds cheered the changes being considered to the Wake County schools' three-year plan for reassigning students to fill 10 new schools.
Cary High at center of latest reassignment battle
Some families want out, others want in.
Parents decry student assignments
Eastern Wake parents demanded stability for their children and more resources for their schools as they weighed in Thursday on the new student reassignment proposal.
300 hear reassignment plan
Reaction was mixed Monday at the first public opportunity to comment on Wake County's draft plan to move 26,771 students to different schools over the next three years.
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