This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. In yesterday’s Primer, we talked about a study that found huge gaps between rich and poor students […]
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New Report Finds Huge Gaps Between Rich and Poor Students in the South—Including North Carolina
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. This N&O story caught my eye this morning: a new report from Columbia Group (see the PDF […]
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Raleigh Pollster Dean Debnam Wants to Show Wake Commissioners That Their School Funding Vote Could Have Consequences
To focus votersand the all-Democratic Wake County Board of Commissionerson how school funding might affect their reelection bids next year, Raleigh pollster Dean Debnam released a survey Monday that says 82 percent of likely Democratic primary voters think commissioners should have fully funded the Wake school board’s budget request, which they did not. Debnam owns […]
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In Wake Schools, Why Aren’t Gifted Black and Hispanic Students Being Given the Same Opportunities as Their White and Asian Counterparts?
A Wake County Public Schools program that allows hundreds of students to skip a grade in math instruction includes about 90 percent whites and Asians, twice as many males as females, and only a handful of Hispanic and African-American students. These numbers are far out of line with these groups’ presence in the system, in […]
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A Wake Schools Program Helps White, Asian, and Male Students Advance in Math. Black, Hispanic, and Female Students? Not So Much.
A Wake County Public Schools program that allows hundreds of students to skip a grade in math instruction includes about 90 percent whites and Asians, twice as many males as females, and only a handful of Hispanic and African-American students. These numbers are far out of line with these groups’ presence in the system, in […]
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The Wake School System Wants $45 Million in Extra Funds from the County. The County Manager Says Schools Can Make Do with a Third of That.
A longstanding argument among Wake County leaders reared its head again Monday. Jim Hartmann, the Wake County manager, told county commissioners that the Wake school system hasn’t spent all of the money it got from county coffers in the current budget year and thus doesn’t need the $45 million in new funding it requested for […]
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Wake County Manager Says Wake Schools Don’t Need the $45 Million They Asked For
Jim Hartmann, the Wake County manager, said Monday that the Wake school system isn’t spending all the money it got from county coffers in the current budget year and doesn’t need the $45 million in new funding it requested for the coming year. Instead, Hartmann proposed during a meeting of the Wake County Board of […]
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Passage of HB 13 Would Lower Wake Schools’ Funding Request by $12 Million
Wake County schools’ request for local dollars in the 2017–18 school year will shrink to $45.4 million from $56.6 million if the General Assembly passes the class-size bill called HB 13. That was the word from Superintendent Jim Merrill to Wake County Board of Education members at a work session Tuesday. The bill, which was […]
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Morning Roundup: Democracy NC Demands the NCGOP Be Held Accountable for Its False Voter Fraud Claims
Greetings, fellow travelers. An announcement: today is moving day for the INDY’s Durham office. We’re departing the American Underground building at Main and Corcoran for our cool new digs above Alley Twenty Six at 320 East Chapel Hill Street. If you’re trying to reach us, our systems should be up and running by the afternoon […]
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Wake Schools Superintendent Jim Merrill Has No Good Options to Deal with Coming Budget Crunch
Jim Merrill, superintendent of the Wake County Public School System, has a list of options in the event of a possible fiscal meltdown next school year, but he’s not wild about any of them. Along with the system’s 159,000 students, more than 10,000 teachers, and nine school board members, Merrill is looking to the state […]