The Wake County Board of Education voted Tuesday by a 5-4 margin to bring students back to the classroom next month. Here is the breakdown: Students in pre-kindergarten through third grade will begin their three-week rotation – learning two weeks online and one week in person – on Oct. 26. Grades 4 and […]
Summer break is over for year round student as they head back to class this morning. This means more traffic as buses hit the road and parents getting to and from school to drop off kids. Wake County school officials said they’re fully staffed in the classrooms. More than 2,800 teachers are back to […]
Apex High School teacher Brian Kelley resigned after a video appeared showing him with his hands around a student’s neck. It appeared as though Kelly was choking the student. According to Wake County Schools spokeswoman Lisa Luten Kelly’s effective resignation dated was June 15, 2018. Kelley was suspended with pay since May 25, 2018. He was […]
A planned teacher’s rally has many school districts closing as teachers rally for higher pay and better treatment. School leaders in Charlotte-Mecklenberg, Durham, Orange, Nash-Rocky Mount and Chapel Hill-Carrboro districts have also said they’d close schools to allow teachers to protest at the Legislative Building, and now Wake County schools have announced their closings. Thousands […]
Reports that the flu was in both kindergarten and 2nd grades has urged some parents to call for a change in schools when it comes to cleaning tables in the cafeterias. Currently the district washes lunch tables during lunch hours with water only. Parents said they are worried about germs spreading as flu season spikes and are […]
Concerned parents who have students that attend Wake County Schools would like changes to the schools cafeteria table washing policy. The concern was shown by the circulating of an online petition addressing the issue. Currently the district washes lunch tables during lunch hours with water only. With the current spike in flu cases parents are now worried […]
Wake County schools are trying to attract more bus drivers by increasing their salaries. Bus drivers are getting pay increases of about .56 cents making the starting pay at about $13.11 an hour, up from $12.55 an hour. Read more at News and Observer.
Racism has showed it’s ugly head in Wake County schools lately with separate incidents and some that have been reported nationally. The president of the NAACP’s Raleigh-Apex branch says the civil rights group’s phones have been ringing off the hook since the first reports about the recent racially-charged incidents at two Wake County schools. Parents […]
Bus changes are the major changes in both Raleigh and Durham today. Durham County schools are on a major bell change, as the elementary school leave out for school earlier; high school students will begin their days at a later time. Also there is an increase in school meal prices – the first price increase in six […]
Wake county schools are making major changing to bus routes for upcoming school season. You may remember they did this a couple of years ago and parents complained of kids not getting picked up or late buses and more. If you child is going to start school later this month with traditional schools, the […]
