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Parents: Trying To Get Information On Student Assignment In Wake County?

Families seeking more information on the Choice Student Assignment Plan can visit the Wake County Schools Administration Building during extended hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays or attend one of the information sessions being held across Wake County.

The Student Assignment Department and Center for International Enrollment will open for extended hours beginning Tuesday, January 10 – Thursday, February 23. The extended hours will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m.

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Karen Clark

Jan 4, 2012 at 6:24 am

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Learn How Local Government Works In Wake County

Learn about local government services in Raleigh and Wake County through this free series of classes sponsored by the Community Services Department.

Raleigh Neighborhood College is offered on Thursday evenings over a 12-week period each spring and fall. Applications are now being accepted for the spring 2012 session which starts March 1 and concludes with graduation May 24. Classes will take place from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at William Peace University.

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Karen Clark

Dec 5, 2011 at 6:41 am

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Magnet School Selection Period Starts Today In Wake County

Wake County Public School System Magnet Program’s selection period is Dec. 5 through the 19.

Prior to participating in the magnet school selection process, all new students and rising kindergarteners must pre-enroll.

On Dec. 5, parents can begin the magnet school selection process by completing the online application.

VIEW MAGNET WEBSITE

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Jodi Berry

Nov 18, 2011 at 9:55 am

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Keep An Eye Out For Bambi

Researcher say that deer usually come out of the woods between 5p.m and 7a.m. Well, research is wrong. I had a near miss this morning around 9:25 exiting off the 540. Maybe the deer didn’t set his clock back.

Wake County ranks at the top of the list statewide. In a typical year, more people die from collisions with deer than in bus crashes, train crashes and airline crashes combined. A recent study by the University of North

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Karen Clark

Nov 15, 2011 at 6:24 am

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Meetings To Help Wake Parents With Student Assignment Choices

Wake County Public School System updated the web site for its new student assignment plan Friday.

On Monday, the district began a series of information sessions designed to walk parents through the process.

The new plan requires families to choose, based on their address, among a list of schools they would want to attend.

Families are supposed to have a choice of at least five elementary, two middle, and two high schools based

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Karen Clark

Nov 8, 2011 at 6:46 am

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IT’S VOTING DAY!!

The make-up of the Wake County School Board majority is on the line Tuesday, along with a couple of mayoral races.

A runoff election will decide the winner between incumbent Wake County School Board Member Kevin Hill and Republican Heather Losurdo.

During the primaries, Losurdo got 40 percent of the vote and Hill was 51 votes shy of the majority needed to avoid a runoff.

In Durham, Mayor Bill Bell will face Democrat Sylvester

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Karen Clark

Aug 12, 2011 at 7:01 am

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Four Wake residents charged with voting twice

VIA: WTVD.COM

Authorities have charged four Wake County residents with voter fraud in connection with the last presidential election.

Twenty-six-year-old Kierra Fontae Leache of Pheiffer Drive in Raleigh, 46-year-old Shelia “Sheilia” Romona Hodges, also of Pheiffer Drive in Raleigh, and 25-year-old Brandon Earl McLean of Bethune Drive in Raleigh, allegedly cast two ballot votes in 2008.

All three are registered Democrats.

According to arrest warrants, Leache filed a no-excuse absentee

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Karen Clark

Dec 3, 2010 at 10:44 am

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NAACP: Wake County is example of national problem

The country’s most prominent civil rights group has come to Raleigh to draw attention to what it calls a growing erosion of the gains made since a 1954 Supreme Court decision made segregated schools illegal.

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Karen Clark

Sep 23, 2010 at 11:08 am

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Agency threatens to remove Wake schools’ accreditation

RALEIGH — A powerful accreditation agency has threatened to immediately remove its certification from Wake County’s high schools unless the school system cooperates with its review.

In a letter to the school system, Kenneth Bergman, the general counsel for Advancing Excellence in Education Worldwide, or AdvancED, writes that the agency is concerned about the “openly defiant nature” of Wake’s reaction to its special review. Bergman added that refusing to cooperate is a “direct

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