The quality of Wake County’s school system
has made the area a very desirable place to live. Is this quality sustainable
in the future as the area continues to grow and the system struggles to find
adequate funding? WakeUP Wake County has assembled a group of experts to help
us better understand the challenges now and in the future. Hope you can attend
and please spread the word about this important public forum.
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Please come…. To a public forum on key
challenges to Wake public schools, on Tuesday, May 12, 7 - 9:30 p.m. at the
NCSU McKimmon Center. The focus of the forum will be on how to achieve
and fund educational excellence, given the challenges we face in decreased
school funding and population growth. We hope this forum will provide
important information to parents and policymakers to help ensure high quality
education for all our children. Details are below, and a flyer and the agenda
are attached. Please feel free to forward to others who may be
interested.
Free Public Forum
Achieving
Educational Excellence in
Times
of Challenge and Change
How Should
Wake County Schools Plan for Growth and the Current Economic Crisis?
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
7 to 9:30 pm (doors
open at 6:30 p.m.)
McKimmon Center
1101 Gorman Street Raleigh
Speakers and panelists
include:
Former BOE Member Tom Oxholm, Co-author of
"A School District's Journey to Excellence"
Chair of the Wake Education Partnership,
Ann Denlinger
Deputy Wake County Manager Johnna Rogers
John Dornan of the NC Public School
Forum
Dr. Dudley Flood, UNC-CH professor and
UNC Board of Governors
NC General Assembly Representative Nelson
Dollar
Jim Blackburn of the NC Association of
County Commissioners
Wake County Commissioner Stan Norwalk
Wake County School Board Member Beverley
Clark
Charlotte Turpin, NCAE
Co-hosted by: WakeUP Wake County, Wake NC
Association of Educators, Concerned Citizens for African American Children,
Wake League of Women Voters, and Bigger Picture 4 Wake
For complete
agenda and registration (encouraged, but not required), go to:
http://wakeupwakecounty.com/cms/
For more information,
contact: Karen Rindge, WakeUP Wake County, krindge@earthlink.net
Forum Sponsors:
Community Forum Leader
Dean
Debnam and Stephanie Fanjul
Nancy
and Ron McFarlane
Wake
N.C. Association of Educators
WakeUP
Wake County
John
Wilson
Community Forum Supporter
BiggerPicture4Wake
Barbara
and Jim Goodmon
Subhash
Gumbar
Russell
Killen
Erv
and Sue Portman
Senator
Josh Stein and Anna Stein
Smedes
York
Community Forum Friend
Concerned
Citizens for African American Children
Cynthia
Ball and Dave Aspnes
Yevonne
Brannon
Rodger
Koopman
Lois
Nixon
Virginia
Parker
Susan
Parry
Gerda
Stein
Russ
Stephenson
Wake
League of Women Voters