Liberty
Is It Policy, Or Is It Politics?
Carolina Journal’s Dan Way reports here on a school board disciplinary policy being considered by the Wake and Buncombe County school boards. The policy would allow the board to go…
Wake County Board of Education Member District 5 election, 2016
Liberty
Four Candidates File For Wake School Board Seats So Far
Filing is underway for the October 8 Wake County election. Four candidates have, so far, filed for seats on the Wake County school board. While officially “nonpartisan,” the board is anything…
Education
Career administrators are not “career educators”
Protip for the Triangle media: Wake County’s new superintendent, Jim Merrill, is a career administrator, not a career educator. An educator provides instruction. An administrator manages the enterprise that allows…
Liberty
Wake School Board Members Susan Evans and Bill Fletcher Meet With Cary Mayor
In his March 24 blog, Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht reports this meeting held last Thursday. My next meeting on Thursday was with school board members Susan Evans and Bill Fletcher. They…
Liberty
Move Over Parents, The Food Police Know Better Than You Do
There is no limit to the hubris displayed by those who believe they’re better at raising kids than the actual parents are. In Wake County, the food police squad of…
Liberty
Wake School Board Democrats To Tap Disputed Surplus Cash To Hire Lobbyist To Fight Commissioners
Democrats on the “nonpartisan” Wake County school board have voted to fight the hand that feeds them and hire a lobbyist to, as board chairman Keith Sutton put it, “defend”…
Liberty
Does Wake School Board Member Susan Evans Know Charters ARE Public Schools?
There’s a fascinating conversation taking place among members of the Wake County Board of Commissioners and Wake County school board about issues of governance and policy. One of the issues…
Liberty
Wake School Board Members Whine About Accountability
It’s just not fair! That is the mantra coming from the Democratic majority of the Wake County school board now that the Republican-led General Assembly is requiring a letter grade be…
Liberty
Wake School Board Member Susan Evans Yanks Microphone From Deborah Prickett, Mid-Sentence
Move over Debra Goldman. Democratic Wake school board member Susan Evans has become the board member to watch. Last night, when Evans didn’t like what fellow board member Deborah Prickett…
Elections & Public Integrity
In case you missed it …
WTVD asked the John Locke Foundation for comment on the scandal involving Wake County school board members Debra Goldman and Chris Malone, Republicans running for higher office this year.
Education
Wake school board fires Tata
In a party-line vote, today the Wake County school board fired Superintendent Tony Tata after 20 months on the job. He’ll receive a separation package of slightly more than $250,000.…
Liberty
Raleigh Chamber Head On Wake Schools U-Turn: “will require mandatory assignment to fill schools.”
The News & Observer has posted an email sent to Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce members about the decision by the Democrats who control the Wake County school board to…