New School On The Blog: My Year-Round Experience

Time For Public Hearings

2008-01-11T21:59:00Z

The most recent revision to the Student Assignment Draft was released this week, and next week the Public Hearings will begin for the 2008-09 Assignment Plan. Parents are being given the opportunity to attend these Public Hearings, and if you have anything to say you will have 3 minutes to give feedback and/or suggestions that you would like to see made to this draft. The feedback will be considered by the School Board in making any changes to the current draft, and the final proposal will be voted on by the School Board on February 5. (you may attend all 3 meetings, but may only speak at 1)

Locations of Public Hearings Made Public

2008-01-03T00:02:00Z

The Board of Education will hold public hearings on the 2008 Growth Management Proposal at three high schools this month.

Dates Have Been Set for Reassignment Public Hearings

2007-12-19T07:25:00Z

The school board announced Tuesday that they will hold 3 reassignment public hearings on January 15, January 17 and January 24 2008. The times and locations will be released later.

“Draft Day” Is Here

2007-12-07T13:58:00Z

The 2008-09 Student Assignment Draft will be released at 5:00 PM today. I can honestly say this is something I’ve been anxiously awaiting for a long time. In case you haven’t seen it yet, just go to http://www.wcpss.net and follow the links. By inputting your address, you’ll receive your “proposed” assignment for the 2008-09 school year.

Big News Coming Out Friday at 5:00 PM

2007-12-03T15:32:00Z

Well, this Friday at 5:00 PM the Draft Assignment Plan will be released on the WCPSS website. The stated reason for waiting until 5:00 PM is so that parents checking the website won’t be competing with schools for network resources. Click here for the WCPSS press release regarding the plan.

http://www.wcpss.net/news/2007_dec3_assign/

Gearing Up For Community Engagement Meetings

2007-10-23T04:38:00Z

Survey for Families Opting-Out of Year-Round Schools

2007-09-29T14:13:00Z

Some of the families who opted-out of year-round schools to traditional calendar schools have received a survey from Wake County’s Evaluation and Research department. The purpose of this survey is to better understand why families chose to opt-out of year-round and modified-calendar schools. The WCPSS staff says they hope that the information will allow the district to better address the concerns of families.

Tracked Back In!

2007-09-12T11:40:00Z

We have just completed our first track out and in process. We couldn’t be happier!

Traditional Schools BUSTING at the seams!

2007-08-27T15:26:00Z

Today the traditional schools in Wake County started classes, and projections show that they will be severely overcrowded.

Time To Discuss Reassignment for 2008-09

2007-08-14T00:43:00Z

It’s hard to believe, but in just 3 weeks the School Board will be having a work session to discuss the reassignment plan for the 2008-09 school year.

HOT! HOT! HOT!

2007-08-09T19:07:01Z

With temperatures soaring into the 100’s, are our kids better off in school or at home?

We’ve TRACKED OUT already!

2007-08-01T02:24:00Z

Our first “track out” has begun. The initial 3 weeks of school passed very quickly. At our house we called those first 3 weeks of school “School Camp”, because we were going to be in and out so quickly---AND because it was hard to believe that 2 of my kids actually had to go to school when the rest of us were playing at the pool. The term “camp” doesn’t sound as serious as “school”, so that’s how we handled it. This year it wasn’t too bad because all 4 kids got out of school with the traditional calendar in early June, so we had 5 weeks of summer together before my 2 younger kids had to go back to school. Next year will be the real test when the younger kids only get 1 week of summer vacation before going right back into school!

First Day Back for Track 4

2007-07-30T13:42:00Z

Are you on track 4? How was your first day back?

What Exactly Is A Blogger?

2007-07-27T16:33:00Z

What a crazy year it’s been. A year ago I had never heard of MYR, VYR or GM (at least as they pertained to schools), and I thought school reassignment only happened to those who didn’t live geographically close to the school they were attending. What I’ve learned and experienced during this time has been very eye opening, to say the least.

Let’s Talk Shade Structures!

2007-07-20T15:11:00Z

Back in the fall of last year when we were told that our school was going to be forced to convert to a Year-round schedule, we made up our minds that we’d research the subject as well as we could to see if there was any way to get our school taken off the list. We felt that we had a very compelling case against the conversion, so it was time to get to work on our strategy.