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maintain all student teacher ratios at current levels;
reduce class sizes in grades 4-5;
increase support for five small, under-utilized, and/or declining enrollment elementary schools, including Aversboro, Baileywick, Hilburn Drive, Jefferys Grove and Root;
create new instructional opportunities for Aversboro Elementary, Hilburn Drive Elementary, York Elementary, Carroll Middle and Knightdale High in the STEM Collaborative Network and for Timber Drive Elementary, Jeffreys Grove Elementary and Stough Elementary in the Global Schools Collaborative Network.
ensure foreign language at all middle schools;
maintain the 26 Pre-K classrooms that have been federally funded for the past two years; and
expand alternative learning program seats to 2,106 from 1,346."
I know how much you're looking forward to moving back to the area.
As a parent with kids in the elementary and middle levels within WCPSS, the info you've posted here looks promising. Let's hope they actually make it work without cutting other critical areas of need.
If state or county funding differs from the funding picture on which the school budget was approved, the board will be required to reconcile its budget to the authorized funding from the county and state.
Do do they expect the state funding to come through? News reports suggest major cuts in state funding for education. Here's what the N&O said earlier this week:
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Wake County school leaders already were planning on eliminating at least 200 jobs.
The budget developed by Superintendent Tony Tata, which assumed a 5 percent state funding cut, called for eliminating 46 administrative positions and one clerical position at each of the 163 schools.
But the state House's proposed 8.8 percent cut would slash $70 million from Wake - $30 million more Tata projects.
Tata plans to meet this week with Wake County members of the state legislature to press for as small a cut as possible to education funding. "These are very significant cuts and we can't balance the budget on the backs of our children," Tata said.
In the interim, the school board will vote today on a $1.2 billion operating budget for the 2011-12 fiscal year. It will ask the county commissioners for $313.5 million, the same amount received the past two years.
Nobody knows what is going to happen with the State budget. If Schools have to cut 9% we are looking at teachers being let go
Or pressure for a property tax increase. Why can't they cut more staff in Central services, make them prove that they are adding value to a child's education?
IDK but one of my kids' teachers was being let go at the end of the year and she sent out an email today and at the end she said she had "great news" but wasn't able to share it yet. Hopefully it means she is staying on now.
Even if she isn't staying at the current school, it may be that she has been hired for another building.
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