Board Approves Plan to Contact Parents
April 22, 2008 - A plan to obtain consent from families of students assigned to year-round and modified-calendar schools for 2008-09 was approved by the Board of Education today.TimelineTraditional Calendar Options |
The board approved the plan and alternative traditional calendar school assignments for parents who choose to send their children to a traditional calendar school rather than their assigned school. This is the second year the school system has sought parent consent to year-round and modified calendar assignments following a ruling from Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning. The school system has appealed that ruling, and is awaiting a decision from a state appeals court.
Under the plan approved by the board, WCPSS Growth and Planning will mail more than 6,400 letters to families seeking their decision regarding whether they plan to send their children to their assigned year-round or modified calendar school, or request assignment to the alternative traditional calendar school approved by the board.
The letters will be sent to families who pre-registered students assigned as base students to year-round or modified calendar schools; families who have students assigned to a designated traditional calendar school for 2007-08 whose parents did not apply for a calendar option and who are now assigned to a year-round or modified calendar school for 2008-09; or families who have students in nodes reassigned to year-round schools form traditional calendar schools or are moving from a traditional calendar elementary school to a year-round middle school.
Administrators at schools will be asked to contact the families of 3,000 students to make them aware of their options. The schools would be contacting the families who have students assigned to a designated traditional calendar school for 2007-08 whose parents did not apply for a calendar option and who are now assigned to a year-round or modified calendar school for 2008-09; or families who have students in nodes reassigned to year-round schools form traditional calendar schools or are moving from a traditional calendar elementary school to a year-round middle school.
WCPSS Growth and Planning will deliver 27,000 information sheets to be sent home with student assignment strips in May. These information sheets will be sent to families who have students with a current base assignment to a year-round or modified-calendar school and gave consent during the 2007-08 school year for assignment to those schools. The information sheets will provide families with information about their options and encourage them to contact their schools or the WCPSS Growth and Planning Office if they want their students to attend the alterantive traditional calendar school assignment.
Families who receive the letters or the information sheets will be asked to make a decision by May 23 and notify WCPSS Growth and Planning.
Assistant Superintendent Chuck Dulaney said this process will address parents’ needs and be simpler for everyone, reducing paperwork and helping schools by providing them more information earlier.
Timeline
April 22 |
Present Process To The Board Of Education |
April 29 |
Mail 6,439 letters to families in groups 2,3, and 4. |
May 2 |
Package 27,000 information sheets for students currently enrolled with consent to be included with Assignment Letter materials. |
April 28-May 9 |
Schools attempt to contact groups 3 and 4 |
May 15 |
Schools send official assignment notification to all students. |
May 15 to June 1 |
Annual Transfer request process begins. |
May 23 |
Deadline for consent prior to default assignment to designated traditional calendar school. |
May 28 |
Growth and Planning mails official traditional calendar assignments to those families who have not consented to year-round or modified calendar assignment. |
May 29-June 13 |
Families receiving traditional calendar assignments may apply for transfers. |
July 7 |
Tracks 1, 2, and 3 begin the 2007-08 school year |
July 24 |
School year for modified calendar schools begins |
July 28 |
Track 4 school year begins |
August 25 |
Traditional calendar school year begins |
Continuous |
New student registration process will be modified to collect parental consent prior to assignment to any year-round or modified calendar school. |
Traditional Calendar Options
| Year-Round or Modified Calendar School | Option During Calendar Application Process In February |
Option approved by Board on April 22 |
| Adams Elementary | Reedy Creek | Reedy Creek |
| Ballentine Elementary | Lincoln Heights | Lincoln Heights |
| Barwell Rd Elementary | Forestville | Swift Creek |
| Baucom Elementary | Penny Road | Penny Road |
| Brassfield Elementary | Lead Mine | Lead Mine |
| Brier Creek Elementary | Reedy Creek | Reedy Creek |
| Carpenter Elementary | Reedy Creek | Reedy Creek |
| Carver Elementary | None | Zebulon Elem. |
| Durant Road Elementary | Rolesville | Rolesville |
| East Garner Elementary | Vandora Springs | Smith |
| Green Elementary | Lynn Road | Lynn Road |
| Green Hope Elementary | Weatherstone | Weatherstone |
| Harris Creek Elementary | Rolesville | Rolesville |
| Heritage Elementary | Wake Forest | Wake Forest |
| Highcroft Elementary | Weatherstone | Reedy Creek |
| Hodge Road Elementary | Forestville | Brentwood |
| Holly Grove Elementary | Penny Road | Penny Road |
| Holly Springs Elementary | Holly Ridge | Holly Ridge |
| Jones Dairy Elementary | Rolesville | Rolesville |
| Knightdale Elementary | Wakelon | Wakelon |
| Laurel Park Elementary | Briarcliff | Joyner |
| Leesville Road Elementary | Stough | Stough |
| Lockhart Elementary | Wakelon | Wakelon |
| Middle Creek Elementary | Swift Creek | Swift Creek |
| Mills Park Elementary | Weatherstone | Weatherstone |
| Morrisville Elementary | Weatherstone | Weatherstone |
| North Forest Pines Elementary | Wake Forest | Wake Forest |
| Oak Grove Elementary | Briarcliff | Davis Dr. 144, 145, 67 Wiley 70.1, 70.3, 641 |
| Olive Chapel Elementary | Penny Road | Penny Road |
| Partnership Elementary | None | Brentwood |
| Pleasant Union Elem | Lynn Road | Lynn Road |
| Rand Road Elementary | Aversboro | Aversboro |
| River Bend Elementary | Fox Road | Rolesville |
| Salem Elementary | Briarcliff | Davis Drive for nodes 445.1, 445.3 |
| Sanford Creek Elementary | Fox Road | Fox Road |
| Sycamore Creek | Hilburn | Hilburn |
| Timber Drive Elementary | Smith | Combs |
| Turner Creek Elementary | Penny Road | Apex |
| Vance Elementary | Smith | Smith |
| Wakefield Elementary | Rolesville | Rolesville |
| West Lake Elementary | Smith | Smith |
| Wilburn Elementary | Fox Road | Wildwood Forest |
| Willow Springs Elementary | Fuquay-Varina | Lincoln Heights |
| Centennial Campus Middle | None | Leesville Road Middle |
| Durant Road Middle | West Millbrook Middle | West Millbrook Middle |
| East Cary Middle | Reedy Creek Middle | Reedy Creek Middle |
| East Wake Middle | Zebulon Middle | Zebulon Middle |
| Heritage Middle | Wake Forest Rolesville Middle | Wake Forest Rolesville Middle |
| Lufkin Road Middle | Apex Middle | Apex Middle |
| Moore Square Middle | None | Leesville Middle |
| North Garner Middle | Dillard Middle | Reedy Creek Middle |
| Salem Middle | Apex Middle | Apex Middle |
| West Lake Middle | Dillard Middle | Dillard Middle |
| Southeast Raleigh High | None | Middle Creek |
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