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New yr middle school(M8) Leesville Church Rd/Strickland Petition
* Target: To WCPSS School Board Members, County Commissioners, and Staff
* Sponsored by: North Raleigh Families WHO Care
Please add your name to the petition below to show your support for M-8. It is important that the board knows there is community support in NW Raleigh for this school, at this time where there are other proposed schools vying for limited funding.
Be Present. Be Informed. Be Heard!M-8 is a middle school site in the Leesville High School zone near the intersection of Strickland and Leesville Roads. A school could be built and ready for new students by 2013 if preliminary work begins shortly. Wake County already owns the land and because several school construction projects funded by the 2005 bond referendum came in under budget there is money available to begin the work now.
Moving up the construction of M8 would help alleviate crowding at Leesville Middle School as well as give families a year round calendar option in the newly proposed Northwest zone. The proposed zone has 5 elementary schools feeding into just one middle school. Applying to Durant Middle, in the neighboring zone, may be an option but it is also very overcrowded.
Several projects are under consideration but there is only enough money to build two schools with the currently available funds.
Last month, the board had voted 6-2,with Goldman and John Tedesco being the only members voting "no" on starting design work for the three new schools: an elementary schools in N. Raleigh(E20) and Apex( Scotts Ridge), and the middle school in northwest Raleigh( M8), indicating their desire for more schools in Southeast Raleigh and concern that these decisions were being made before the new community assignment zones were finalized. At Debra Goldmans request, this issue returned to the full BOE's agenda Tuesday, September 7Th. Her motion to rescind the prior vote died when no one seconded her.
There is only enough money from bond savings right now to build two of the schools.The money for these sites comes from a BOE reserve of roughly $45 million. It was accumulated over several years from savings on other school construction budget and also reflect the savings from YRS.
The request was approved by the Board Of Commissions. Now it’s up to the school board to make up their mind. Don Hayden made the point that if the design work was started NOW we could avoid running out of capacity.
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Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Board of Education Work Session
Board Conference Room
3600 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609
Time: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Board meeting and public comment begins at 3pm
Enloe students have created an online petition for supporters of Wake County’s current student assignment policy, one that values and promotes a diverse student body at every school. If you believe that the Wake County Board of Education needs to keep diversity as one of its goals when assigning students, please click here and sign the petition: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/GO6200/petition.html (This petition is for registered Wake County voters only.)
Petition for Project Enlightenment
Among the positions cut by the BOE recently were a large number of jobs at Project Enlightenment. A petition has been created to reinstate parent services at this agency.
Fund schools first
State Superintendent June Atkinson was joined by NC School Boards Association President Wendell Hall, NC Association of School Administrators Executive Director Bill McNeal, North Carolina Association of Educators President Sheri Strickland, and NCPTA Executive Director Debra Horton at a news conference to call on North Carolina lawmakers to stand firm on funding public schools first. Atkinson reiterated that, “While we wait for full economic recovery, we cannot put children on hold. We need to fund schools first.” To read more, please visit the NCDPI Web site at www.ncpublicschools .org and click on the appropriate link under “News.”
How to get involved:
School board meetings are open to the public. The agenda is posted in advance. You can learn a lot about your district's policies and challenges by attending a meeting. The schedule for regular board meetings will be established annually by the board. Meetings are held in the boardroom at the system's Administration Building, 3600 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh. If the Board meeting begins at 3 p.m., there will be a public comment period at 4 p.m. You are also allowed to sign up to express your opinions to the board and the community about your thoughts related to our schools. Each individual speaker will be allowed three minutes for remarks. Board members are there to listen and respond to the community's concerns and are open to ideas for improving our schools. You can also email your comments, concerns & ideas to
dpricket@wcpss.net
cmalone2@wcpss.net
jtedesco@wcpss.net
dgoldman@wcpss.net
rmargiotta@wcpss.net
ksutton@wcpss.net
cbmorrison@wcpss.net
amclauren@wcpss.net
klhill@wcpss.net
Keep in touch with your school board members and County Commissioners. Send them your comments and suggestions for Wake County Schools.
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