WCPSS Spends 75% of Covid Dollars on Salaries and Benefits, Little to Nothing on Tutoring
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 @ 6:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two distinct Senate bills SB 636 and SB 574, if passed, could nullify a recent policy change to let high school students enter into “name, image, likeness,” or NIL, contracts before the new policy goes into effect July 1st.
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2023 @ 12:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper visited and toured Wilburn Elementary School in Raleigh to celebrate Read Across America Week. During the event, Governor Cooper visited classrooms and read to students.
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2023 @ 7:46 am
By: Governor's Office
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Remember these numbers. $442 million and $306.7 million. Those figures represent how much money Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) has received in federal covid relief funds and how much money the district has actually spent.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 12:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The pandemic has impacted Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) in a variety of ways. Achievement gaps have hardened and learning loss has caused many at-risk groups to fall even farther behind.
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 8:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Earlier this week Keung Hui of the News and Observer tweeted that Wake County Public Schools is still recommending that all students and staff wear masks in schools
Published: Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 @ 3:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina schools received over $6 billion in funding to remedy the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on students and schools.
Published: Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 @ 2:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What is happening to all that money Wake County Schools (WCPSS) is getting for covid relief?
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2022 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Cards for learning 'colors' all have LGBT themes, including a pregnant man.
Published: Saturday, June 4th, 2022 @ 3:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Parents of Wake County Public School students know well the realities of the school bus driver shortage.
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2022 @ 3:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If all goes as planned, Wake County voters will be asked to approve a nearly $900 million bond referendum this November.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 1:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That nod to the famous line from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist may be what some Wake County commissioners are thinking after learning that Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) Superintendent Cathy Moore is asking Wake County Commissioners for approximately $600 million
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 2:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that personnel data for local public schools has been posted by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, we have data on how the pandemic may have impacted staffing levels in local school districts.
Published: Sunday, March 27th, 2022 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Wake County Public School Board voted for making masks recommended but not required for athletics immediately. The vote includes extracurricular activities, ending masks requirements on Friday, Feb. 25, and for classes starting March 7.
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 8:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Wake County Public School System announced in a letter to parents on its website Friday, Feb. 18, that masks will become optional in their schools “in the coming days,” while Lee and Wayne County school boards voted to immediately lift mask mandates.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 12:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Wake County principal has denied a mask exemption request for a kindergartener with disabilities, according to a recorded phone call released by the anonymous parent.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 12:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Tuesday’s Wake County Board of Education meeting was filled with parents angry about the board’s decision to continue the mask mandate.
Published: Monday, July 19th, 2021 @ 11:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a known revolutionary in the NCAE. Does this frighten you? It should, and here's why!
Published: Thursday, April 15th, 2021 @ 10:49 am
By: John Woodard
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If coronavirus were not enough, parents are starting to get increasingly uneasy about how their children will be educated this fall.
Published: Thursday, June 25th, 2020 @ 3:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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To limit the spread of coronavirus, public schools have been closed across North Carolina and the nation.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 11:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2019 @ 9:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On their second day at school at Heritage High School in Wake County, students in Ms. Wilson's 10th grade English class were handed a worksheet titled "Diversity Inventory," and told to complete it.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 @ 4:22 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Volunteers from AbbVie, a pharmaceutical company, partnered with Heart of America Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to volunteer work and remodeling schools, to complete projects benefiting the community.
Published: Saturday, June 15th, 2019 @ 2:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week the News & Observer reported that Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) grew by a mere 42 students
Published: Sunday, January 6th, 2019 @ 2:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Human rights declarations are usually flowery expansive documents that assert our common humanity and enumerate rights that have been trampled on or forgotten altogether
Published: Tuesday, August 28th, 2018 @ 9:33 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Few people seem to be noticing but property taxes for Wake County homeowners may be going up yet again
Published: Sunday, August 19th, 2018 @ 10:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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While Gov. Roy Cooper toured the halls of Stough Elementary School in Wake County, he criticized legislators for failing to put a nearly $2 billion school construction bond on the November ballot
Published: Sunday, July 22nd, 2018 @ 9:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Wake County Public School System and Guilford County Schools are closing their doors May 16 so thousands of teachers can rally at the start of the short session for higher pay and more school resources
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 @ 2:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about local government debt. It all started when I was preparing for a presentation and took a look at the Wake County budget for this year
Published: Friday, March 2nd, 2018 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Cooper today announced his appointments to the Governor's Commission on Access to Sound, Basic Education
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 @ 8:22 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Charlotte Observer reported last week that enrollment in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District had increased by only about 200 students over the previous year
Published: Thursday, November 9th, 2017 @ 6:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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