Lauren Brooks, the 2012 Wake County Teacher of the Year, uses hands-on activities to help make algebra come alive for her Enloe High School students.
Published: May. 22, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
Gabriel DeCaro of Apex has never traveled out of the country before, but he’s not nervous about stepping out of a plane in Mexico this summer. After all, he speaks the language.
Published: May. 19, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
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Cary Christian School’s seniors shared a bittersweet graduation ceremony Thursday. Many of the 50 members of the class of 2012 had shared classrooms since grade school.
Published: May. 18, 2012 5:20 PM | Full story
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About 1,700 Apex High School students get the free Roo Cups as a reward for showing up to school, getting to class on time and for behaving well for two weeks.
Published: May. 19, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
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Wake school officials will contact parents of the 470 students about attending a closer school with bus service and also look to modify an existing bus route to extend service to their assigned school.
Published: May. 17, 2012 1:57 PM | Full story
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Published: May. 22, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
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Education Matters: Staying after school each Friday afternoon to empty recycling bins and check for leaky faucets paid off for Debbie Swift’s EcoWarriors. The Davis Drive Middle School club won a second-place prize of $1,250 in the Energy and Environmental Stewardship School Competition.
Published: May. 15, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
Tony Tata says increases in Wake County home sales for the first quarter disprove the idea that the choice-based school plan is scaring buyers away.
Published: May. 15, 2012 3:56 PM | Full story
Singing about stars’ life cycles and how the eye works to Lady Gaga and One Direction songs may be part of the reason Jason Dapkevich will b awarded the First Year Teacher of the Year Award by the Wake County Public School System on May 17.
Published: May. 9, 2012 11:03 AM | Full story
Half a dozen kids knelt on the floor around a cage in the kitten house at Siglinda Scarpa’s Goathouse Refuge, peering at the litter of four-week-old kittens and mama cat inside.
Published: May. 9, 2012 10:54 AM | Full story
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Published: May. 15, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
With 150,000 students expected in the 2012-2013 school year, the system has received the same amount of local money, about $314 million, from the commission since 2009, while adding 13,000 students.
Published: May. 4, 2012 3:59 PM | Full story
More than a thousand athletes from across Wake County gathered at Cary Academy on Wednesday to race, jump, throw and compete at the local Spring Games of the Special Olympics. The event was held for four days at Cary Academy and Ravenscroft High School.
Published: May. 4, 2012 3:39 PM | Full story
Wake County school officials say five juniors at Panther Creek High School were charged with cheating and punished in ways that included suspensions, detentions and removal from the National Honor Society.
Published: May. 3, 2012 10:54 AM | Full story
The N.C. High School Athletic Association placed Panther Creek and Green Hope in the Tri-Nine 4A Conference after hearing the schools’ appeal. The appeal was centered around the wrong enrollment numbers being used for East Chapel Hill.
Published: May. 2, 2012 11:24 AM | Full story
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Published: May. 8, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
Education Matters: Dillard Drive Middle School students led a science fair April 25 as part of the N.C. Science Festival, teaching Dillard Drive Elementary students basic scientific concepts such as bat echolocation and genetics.
Published: May. 1, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
East Cary Middle School and Weatherstone Elementary in Cary are set to join Wake County’s “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math” program in the coming year.
Published: May. 1, 2012 5:20 PM | Full story
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Published: May. 1, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
The superintendent said he takes “full responsibility” for the delayed release of student assignment results on Thursday. He added that most families are satisfied with the schools they got.
Published: Apr. 30, 2012 5:41 PM | Full story
Wake County school board members put off until Tuesday any modification of the still-shifting student assignment plan for the coming term.
Published: Apr. 29, 2012 10:51 AM | Full story
About 20 Sterling Montessori School students get the chance to role-play and make decisions for the Morrisville Town Council in a civics lesson led by real-life Councilman Mark Stohlman.
Published: Apr. 29, 2012 11:20 AM | Full story
It’s hard to look graceful with a towering crown of packing peanuts, or powerful with a skirt of cardboard tubes. But no one was laughing during a Cary Academy fashion show of 20 history-themed costumes, all painstakingly assembled from recycled materials
Published: Apr. 29, 2012 11:22 AM | Full story
Harvey “Gene” Daniels could often be heard telling his players, “We are more than a team. We are a family.” That sentiment lives on a year after the beloved Apex coach died at the age of 47. Community members will lace up their shoes Saturday morning to run or walk together in the Coach Daniels Inaugural Memorial Scholarship 5K at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary.
Published: Apr. 24, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
Education Matters: For first-timers at the Science Olympiad regional tournament, bringing home a second place trophy in the Varsity division, first place trophy in Junior Varsity and the Spirit Award isn’t too shabby.
Published: Apr. 24, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
The growth of Cary Christian School’s athletic program foreshadows a broader school expansion, and potential friction with neighbors.
Published: Apr. 24, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
The Brookings Institution says the school system’s former diversity policy could explain why the area exceeded test score expectations.
Published: Apr. 21, 2012 11:39 PM | Full story
Since 2008, Wake Technical Community College has participated in a student exchange with the French culinary school, Lycee d’Etat Hotelier du Touquet. For a few weeks in March, the students attended tastings and seminars, worked in local hotels, toured the Champagne region and spent a few days in Paris. The trip is partially funded by the annual Wake Tech Culinary Arts Showcase, held this year on Tuesday, April 23.
Published: Apr. 22, 2012 6:00 PM | Full story
Third-grader Sidi Ceesay is one of 50 students at Reedy Creek Elementary School in Cary who picks up a sealed plastic bag with non-perishable foods to help him get through the weekend without a rumbling belly. The bags, known as Weekend Power Packs, are packed by volunteers from John Deere using staples provided by the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina.
Published: Apr. 21, 2012 11:26 PM | Full story
With the majority of the school’s 1,800 students looking on, volunteers from the state Highway Patrol, Wake County EMS, the Raleigh police and fire departments and other agencies staged the aftermath of a two-car accident that “killed” two of their classmates.
Published: Apr. 20, 2012 9:07 AM | Full story
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