Tata can look back on shepherding through a new student assignment plan, developing a budget that avoided teacher layoffs, bringing relative calm to the board and moving Wake back toward full accreditation for its high schools.
Published: Feb. 8, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Education Matters: Green Hope High School senior Peter Wu thrives on competition. The captain of the school's Quiz Bowl team always gets a rush of excitement before tournaments.
Published: Feb. 8, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
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Education Matters: Apex High School students are working with fellow students in China to raise awareness of famine and genocide in Africa.
Published: Feb. 1, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
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For years, parents have judged schools on student test scores.
Published: Jan. 25, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
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Education Matters: History came alive for students in Steve Koller's ninth-grade social studies class at Green Hope High School when they interviewed veterans and others who lived through World War II.
Published: Jan. 25, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Charter schools are supposed to provide additional public school options for families, but they could become less attractive under Wake County's new student assignment plan.
Published: Jan. 25, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Published: Jan. 25, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Education Matters: Gone are the days of stuffy libraries, dusty books and massive encyclopedias. Abundant information and research sources require new skills from students and librarians.
Published: Jan. 18, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
At Baucom Elementary School in Apex, 960 students must share two playgrounds. Faced with budget cuts, schools have turned to alternative funding to pay for programs: The Pepsi Refresh Project.
Published: Jan. 17, 2012 7:30 PM | Full story
APEX MIDDLE SCHOOL
Published: Jan. 18, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
The Wake County school system is not putting out the "Help wanted" sign for the 2012-13 school year, as it prepares for what could be more budget cuts and layoffs ahead.
Published: Jan. 22, 2012 12:48 PM | Full story
Published: Jan. 11, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Another North Carolina standardized test goes extinct this year with the federal government giving the state permission to drop a 10th-grade writing test that had been used to help determine school quality.
Published: Jan. 11, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
A few hundred parents and students crowded a large conference room in Cary Thursday to hear about new single-gender Wake Leadership academies.
Published: Jan. 11, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Education Matters: A bilingual arts and sciences Montessori preschool called Renaissance Montessori opened in November 2011 in Cary serving ages 2 through 6.
Published: Jan. 11, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Students in Sarah Daugherty's special education preschool class at West Lake Elementary in Apex constantly ask her if they can use the computer.
Published: Jan. 4, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
For a listing of area schools, go to www.carynews.com/schools/directory/story/1577.html. Please send your school news to carynews@nando.com.
Published: Jan. 4, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
For a listing of area schools, go to www.carynews.com/schools/directory/story/1577.html. Please send your school news to carynews@nando.com.
Published: Dec. 28, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
The Democratic majority on the Wake County school board could begin making changes to the new student assignment after the holidays, sparking a potential fight on the divided board.
Published: Dec. 25, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
The complaints about Wake County's new student assignment plan continued Tuesday from parents whose children won't get the promised vision of neighborhood schools.
Published: Dec. 25, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
The days of Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry could be numbered in Triangle schools, but they would be replaced by a new trio of what's supposed to be tougher and more in-depth math courses.
Published: Dec. 21, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
Education Matters: From Fruit Cup Fridays to Veggie Wednesdays and Protein Mondays, students at Adams Elementary in Cary got a lesson in nutrition but also saw their food donations add up throughout November.
Published: Dec. 21, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
For a listing of area schools, go to www.carynews.com/schools/directory/story/1577.html. Please send your school news to carynews@nando.com.
Published: Dec. 21, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
Education Matters: Violin One, you can bring out that part more," said Cary High School Choral Director Edward Yasick as he lifted his baton to rehearse "O, Inexpressible As Sweet" again.
Published: Dec. 14, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
For a listing of area schools, go to www.carynews.com/schools/directory/story/1577.html. Please send your school news to carynews@nando.com.
Published: Dec. 14, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
The State Board of Education delayed action Thursday on requests by local school districts to opt out of the new law requiring an additional five instructional days to the school calendar.
Published: Dec. 7, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
Education Matters: The Fuquay-Varina Women's Club recently awarded a $300 grant to the Jewelry Club at Middle Creek High School.
Published: Dec. 7, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
The application period for Wake County's magnet school program opened Monday amid a number of changes affecting the popular program and the school system.
Published: Dec. 7, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
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