Yes, I was watching — online — when the Wake school board decided to reopen the subject of student assignment policies late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning. If you’re on Twitter, you can follow my pain with the way it was done @rjgeary. A sample: Can’t believe I’m watching #wakeschoolboard at 11:45—discussing major policy […]
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Raleigh 5th-graders rock a music video winner. About algebra.
The kids at Pleasant Union do math What’s the secret sauce that’ll lift our public schools to better results? I think the recipe contains getting kids on their feet more … and encouraging them to work in groups, helping each other so everyone does better. Working alone is tedious; and, if your parents can’t help, […]
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N.C. House District 35 race: It’s not for a seat on the Wake school board, and yet —
With redistricting, N.C. House District 35 is essentially new and wide open, with no incumbent in residence. The Republican nominee is Chris Malone, who lives in Wake Forest and is currently a member of the Wake County school board — one of the four who remain from the erstwhile Margiotta Majority. (Now, with ex-board chair […]
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Mass transit at a standstill in Wake County
It’s another year lostand probably some key capital area properties as wellin what is now a quarter-century-long effort to launch public transit and transit-oriented development in Raleigh, Wake County and the eastern half of the Triangle. Wake County will not vote in November on a 1/2-cent sales tax increase for transit, the only funding mechanism […]
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Today: Transit advocates want Wake Commissioners to give 1/2-cent tax a chance (w/ an update: “Fails”)
[Update, 6/19: Here are a few paragraphs from a story I wrote today for this week’s Indy — First and foremost, Wake County will not vote in November on a ½-cent sales tax increase for transit, the only funding mechanism provided for local governments by the General Assembly. Wake County’s Republican-led Board of Commissioners continues […]
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RT: DREAM’ers gain with Obama immigration move
Major news in Obama immigration policy: DREAMers won’t be deported –ow.ly/bBpoN #ncga #ncpol #ncdreamteam— NC Policy Watch (@NCPolicyWatch) June 15, 2012
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In Martin Marietta quarry rezoning, the “big pile of overburden” gets Raleigh planning commission’s blessing
Catching up with our story from a week ago, “North Raleigh residents fight quarry expansion,” the Raleigh planning commission voted 8-1 in favor of Martin Marietta Materials’ rezoning application, finding that it’s in the public interest to let the company use a 97-acre tract it owns as a dump site for its RDU quarry rather […]
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Public $$$ for private and Christian schools, and the billionaires who want your money spent on them: Facing South
Last week we reported on the Republican General Assembly’s plans to send big chunks of public funding to private and Christian schools. [Inventively headlined: “GOP plan would send public funds to private schools”] Since then, the Republican scheme’s been steaming along. The House budget contains money for it, and various reports suggest that the Senate […]
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(Updated) Does the good Citrix news mean that Raleigh’s grand Union Station plan is dead?
City of Raleigh(In the center) The two large buildings flanking Hargett Street would’ve been redeveloped as Union Station; now the one on the left, north of Hargett, is ticketed for sale. [Update, 6/8, 2:30 pm. I’ve spoken to several city officials now, including Mayor Nancy McFarlane and Councilor Thomas Crowder. Nobody wants to say anything […]
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Paul Coble on the need to consider transit: “Nah.”
Orange County will be voting on the 1/2-cent sales tax for transit in November. That decision was made by the Orange County Board of Commissioners last night. Durham County, of course, has already passed the 1/2-cent tax in a referendum. And Wake? On Monday, at the Board of Commissioners meeting, Democrat Erv Portman urged that […]
