Board Receives Update on 2011-12 Assignment Proposal
January 6, 2011 – The Board of Education received an update on the 2011-12 student assignment proposal from WCPSS Auxiliary Services Chief Don Haydon and Laura Evans of the WCPSS Growth and Planning Department in its committee meeting Tuesday.
The proposal provides for the opening of the new Walnut Creek Elementary and the new Wake NC State University STEM Early College High School, as well as addressing crowding at existing schools.
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Haydon and Evans described a proposal that includes 68 changes requested by families, the school board and school principals along with recommendations from staff to the final year of the multi-year assignment plan. Another 83 suggestions are not longer under consideration for 2011-12 school year.
The staff proposal follows months of work where WCPSS Growth and Planning staff worked with school administrators, held community workshops and met with the school board and its student assignment committee to discuss assignment plans.
As a result of the updates to the proposal, WCPSS Growth and Planning staff is notifying by mail families who were added to the proposal.
The proposal currently includes 4,703 students including 2,625 in elementary, 1,103 in middle and 975 in high school. A number of those students may be able to continue at their current schools under grandfathering rules that would be adopted as part of a final plan.
The school system currently serves 143,289 students in 163 schools and expects more than 3,000 additional students in 165 schools for 2011-12.
The draft proposal now goes to the Board of Education for review. The board has scheduled five public hearings for this proposal. The first is scheduled for Monday. Persons interested in speaking can sign up online to speak at one public hearing. People will also be able to register at the public hearing site from 5 - 5:45 the afternoon of the hearing. The board will first hear comments in the order in which people have registered.
After the public hearings, the board will hold work sessions to discuss the proposal and is expected to finalize a student assignment plan in February.
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