FYI - This is an issue I am very concerned about, because it affects property values and if those go down, crime increases. Please take a few minutes to call a school board member (John Tedesco, Deborah Prickett, Debra Goldman, Ron Margiotta are the big ones who need to hear from us). -- Rebecca Fernandez, Corporate Writer cell: 919.931.4957 rebeccagfernandez(a)gmail.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Heather Koons <hhkoons(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:41 PM Subject: [Longview - Lockwood] Information on Wake County School Board's new assignment plan To: longview(a)eastraleigh.org I'm sure that most of you have been watching the WCPSS School Board's actions regarding the new school assignment plan very closely. If the new majority's plan is implemented, it will cause radical change to the schools that serve our neighborhoods. The schools in our area will become very high poverty schools as the magnet programs will likely be moved to make room for all of the base students to return to their neighborhood schools. Below is some information about a web site that contains a great deal of information on the new zone plan and its impact. I urge you to take a look and then become involved in this issue by writing your school board members and attending school board meetings. Also, please vote in the upcoming election as the County Commissioners have critical influence on financial aspects of the school board's actions. At the bottom of this email is information about an upcoming forum at McKimmon Center. Please attend if you can. The Wake County School Board's actions will affect all of us. Best, Heather Koons Wake Reassignment Website: There's a new website with data prepared by WCPSS parent Neil Riemann with data concerning the proposed Zone Student Assignment plan: http://wakereassignment.info. The site is "intended to be a fact-based resource" that summarizes data from Board meetings as well as WCPSS staff, including data on magnets, student achievement by zone, and other matters. As part of the analysis, it appears that there will be 1,700 or fewer magnet seats in the SE Raleigh/Enloe Zone when this plan is adopted. Currently, there are about 5,700 seats in this zone, so the plan will decrease downtown magnet seats by 4,000. According to the website's analysis, many of those seats will be replaced with year-round or traditional "reverse magnet" seats in places with capacity like the Broughton, Cary, and Apex Zones, and the base students in SE Raleigh/Enloe will be invited to attend them along with everyone else. The Great Schools in Wake Coalition is having a forum, "Costs and Consequences: What's at Stake for Wake County," on Saturday, October 16, 8 am to 12:30 pm, at the McKimmon Center, at Western Boulevard and Gorman Street. Register online for the event: http://wakeupwakecounty.com/cms/greatschools _______________________________________________ Longview mailing list Longview(a)eastraleigh.org http://www.eastraleigh.org/mailman/listinfo/longview