Wake County school board

Wake School Board members voted yesterday against having Keith Sutton return as their chairman for the upcoming year.  Board members didn’t explain why they replaced Sutton, who during his term, hired Jim Merrill to be the new superintendent, convinced the public to back an $810 million school construction bond issue and held off efforts of […]

Wake County voters went to the polls yesterday and passed a $810 million school bond.  Where will this money go and what will it be used for?  Listen as Melissa talks with Wake County School Board Chairman Keith Sutton today in the studio. 

After month of consideration the Wake County school board made a decision on a new Superintendent of schools for Wake County during yesterdays evening meeting. Jim Merrill, superintendent of Virginia Beach City Public Schools, was named Tuesday night as the new superintendent of Wake County schools. Merrill used to work in the Wake school district […]

You went to the polls yesterday and in the heated debate of the Wake County School board, Democrats win 4 seats.  See more results….

Superintendent Tony Tata is scheduled to meet with North Carolina NAACP President William Barber at school board headquarters on Wake Forest Road in Raleigh.

N.C. NAACP president Rev. William Barber and school board member John Tedesco – faced off on Thursday during a recording of N.C. Spin – you can watch it on Sunday.

Hundreds expected to march tomorrow as leaders of the NAACP and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches of the Eastern District, other civic and religious groups, parents and student groups take part in a mass demonstration against the Wake County Board of Education’s planned policy change that they say will lead to re-segregated schools.  Listen to […]

NC – NAACP President Rev. William Barber and three others were arrested during a non-violent protest at the Wake County school board meeting. 

Now that the Wake County school board has passed new directives and policies, it will move forward in developing community assignment zones.

Wake County Board of Education voted yesterday to adopt a community based busing system and move away from the longstanding practice of diversity busing.