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Board Goal

WCPSS students will demonstrate high academic growth; by 2014, all students will graduate on-time prepared to compete globally. Learn more about the goal.

Superintendent's Vision

A community of caring stakeholders (parents, teachers, administrators, and staff) will successfully work collaboratively with support from the broader community to ensure that every child educated in the Wake County Public School System graduates on time, prepared for the future.

Superintendent's Mission

To create and maintain systems with sufficient resources for establishing a collaborative, inclusive, and trusting environment for all stakeholders and for providing high quality learning experiences for each student to ensure success in the 21st century.

Strategic Directives for the Wake County Public School System

• Focus on learning and teaching
• Retain, recruit and train high quality employees
• Develop and implement systems and organizational structures to support schools, ensure accountability, and engage our community
• Expand fiscal accountability

Reports to the Community

2009 Midterm Report: In his January midterm report to the Wake County Board of Education, Dr. Burns focused on leadership for school executives and classroom teachers.

2008 Vision Report: This report to the community looks to the future and our commitments to on-time graduation and continuous improvement.

Older Reports

Chief Officers

• Chief Academic Officer: Donna Hargens (Instructional Services)
  

  To achieve our mission, colleagues from the three interdependent parts of Instructional Services -- Curriculum and Instruction, Evaluation and Research, and Student Support Services -- work collaboratively to assist schools to focus on answering three critical questions:

  1. What are students expected to learn?
  2. Have students learned what is expected?
  3. What do we do when students have or have not learned what is expected?

  
  
• Chief Area Superintendent: Danny Barnes (Area Superintendents)

  Seven area superintendents provide regional leadership to Wake County's 159 schools. They are accountable for the performance, effectiveness and safety of the schools they serve in their regions. As our student population continues to grow throughout the county, the schools assigned to a given area superintendent will change. The area superintendents are:

  

  • Central Wake County: Cathy Moore
  • Eastern Wake County: Danny Barnes
  • Northern Wake County: Ann Hooker
  • Southwestern Wake County: Julye Mizelle
  • Southern Wake County: Lloyd Gardner
  • Western Wake County: Kathryn Chontos
  • Northeastern Wake County: Andre Smith

  
  
• Chief Business Officer: David Neter (Administrative Services)
  

  The Wake County Public School System Administrative Services Division provides a comprehensive suite of business support services for all schools and departments within the system. Business support services include budget, financial processing, financial reporting, purchasing, compensation services and benefits, human resources, risk management, information provision, and technology services. The Administrative Services Division targets to provide a high level of customer service to all school and central service based staff in support of Learning and Teaching. The Division also continues its directive of expanding fiscal accountability throughout the system.

• Chief Communications Officer: Michael Evans (Communications Services)


The mission of the Communications Services Division is to provide services and share information to increase understanding within our community to support 21st century learning in our school system. The division provides public information and media services through the Communications Department, access to school facilities and adult learning opportunities through Community Services, the Customer Service Center, and the school system's Print Shop and Graphic Design Services.

• Chief Facilities and Operations Officer: Don Haydon (Auxiliary Services)
  

  The Auxiliary Services Division provides and maintains facilities that are safe, healthy, and supportive of learning and teaching. While our employees will never administer a math or spelling test to students, we believe student performance is enhanced when they arrive at school safely. We are also responsible for ensuring that students are fed a healthy meal, housed in a classroom that is clean and comfortable, and are in a place where they feel safe and secure.

• Chief of Staff: Terri Cobb (Organizational Development and Support)


Organizational Development and Support includes the Security Department, the Office of Professional Development, Student Due Process and Policy, and the Triangle Leadership Academy. The Division supports all areas within the district including the schools, the Board of Education, the Superintendent's Office, as well as other divisions and departments. The mission of Organizational Development and Support is to advance continuous improvement within district systems and structures that lead to high-quality services for students.

Internal Audit

• Senior Director: Doug Kinney

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