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School choice window closing

Time could be running out for Wake County families to try to avoid attending a year-round school this summer.

Updated: Feb. 23, 2009 5:54 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Feb. 14, 2009 1:28 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Feb. 6, 2009 1:44 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Feb. 4, 2009 1:44 AM | Full story

Wake board adopts school plan

Reassignment map is anything but a done deal.

Updated: Feb. 4, 2009 5:41 AM | Full story

Reassignment critics mobilizing for election

Opponents of Wake school reassignment plan to fight back with ballot.

Updated: Feb. 2, 2009 5:31 AM | Full story

Lacy students will still move

School board OKs other changes.

Updated: Jan. 29, 2009 2:22 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jan. 28, 2009 2:22 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jan. 22, 2009 5:20 AM | Full story

Southern Wake parents fume over reassignment

Southern Wake County parents demanded the right Wednesday to keep their children at schools in their communities.

Updated: Jan. 15, 2009 6:53 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jan. 14, 2009 7:26 AM | Full story

Reconsider school plan, parents ask

About 400 Northern Wake County parents, students and teachers demanded Monday that school officials take another look at reassignment.

Updated: Jan. 13, 2009 6:31 AM | Full story

Minorities quiet on school plan

Black and Hispanic families have had relatively little to say about Wake's reassignment proposal.

Updated: Jan. 12, 2009 4:26 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jan. 9, 2009 1:43 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jan. 6, 2009 7:58 AM | Full story

Reassignment 'a high calling'

Dulaney figures out puzzle every year.

Updated: Jan. 5, 2009 12:40 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jan. 5, 2009 8:31 AM | Full story

Vexed parent seeks answers, politely

Learning the lingo helps, mother says.

Updated: Jan. 5, 2009 12:41 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jan. 4, 2009 5:06 AM | Full story

Armed with the facts, parents can get involved

Q: What's so different about this year's plan?

Updated: Jan. 4, 2009 1:00 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jan. 4, 2009 5:06 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jan. 4, 2009 4:59 PM | Full story

Is summer vacation the law?

N.C. Supreme Court hears Wake suit over mandatory year-round schools.

Updated: Dec. 17, 2008 1:43 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Dec. 17, 2008 5:22 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Dec. 10, 2008 9:30 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Dec. 9, 2008 2:23 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Dec. 2, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Cary High at center of latest reassignment battle

Some families want out, others want in.

Updated: Dec. 1, 2008 1:21 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Nov. 21, 2008 5:27 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Nov. 18, 2008 8:45 AM | Full story

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