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Preliminary Student Assignment Proposal Online Dec. 12
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Five new multi-track year-round elementary schools and two new high schools will be opening for the 2006-07 school year. After reviewing the feedback from the October and November Community Engagement Meetings, the WCPSS Office of Growth Management is putting the finishing touches on its initial student assignment proposal, which will populate these schools while relieving overcrowding in others.
It's important to remember that this is a first draft. Several years ago, the first time anyone in the public saw the staff's annual student assignment plan was when it was presented in full to the Wake County Board of Education in the spring. Now, we release early drafts for public comment much earlier in the school year and Dr. Ramey Beavers's staff takes the feedback into account before bringing a revised plan to the school board. The intention and hope is that this early public involvement makes the process more open and results in a better plan.
We'll be releasing that initial proposal to the public here at www.wcpss.net on the morning of Monday, December 12. There will be another public comment period -- online, by telephone and by mail -- from then until December 23. The Office of Growth Management will be spending January going through the responses in an effort to improve the plan, and will then likely bring the staff plan to the school board in early February. From that point the school board takes the baton, holding public hearings and work sessions before potentially revising and adopting a plan. (We'll have more info on that part of the process later.)
With so many new schools opening to keep up with growth, this will be a large student assignment plan -- one that positions us for future growth and school construction. The vast majority of students will not be affected by the plan, but many of our schools will be. Your feedback in the Community Engagement Meetings, in the comment period following the draft's release, and further on into the process, is very important and will continue to guide us as we continue responding to Wake County's explosive growth.
(For lots of information about our county's growth, be sure to check out the WCPSS Demographics Resource Center, with details about population growth in different parts of the county, school facts, and our annual enrollment increase by school level.)
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