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Ms. Lori Millberg in the Wake Weekly of 2006

“Leesville and Wakefield parents may feel like they’ve dodged a bullet,” she said, “but when reassignment comes out, they’re not going to feel (that way),” she said.

For those of you who'd like the whole article here's the link:
http://www.wakeweekly.com/2006/Sept21-3.html

Leesville Middle was taken off the list because less than half of those students come from year-round schools, Millberg said.
Converting a middle school which is not supported by year-round schools is a “worst-case scenario,” she said. Families would end up with children on both traditional and year-round schedules, something parents and board members would like to avoid.

Don Hayden  June 6th 2008 - Information Requested During 2 June 2008 Board of Commissioners' Meeting

Reserve Fund                                                                              ($M)

Year-round conversions                                                      12.5

Program management                                                         13

Acceleration of 2 ES, 1 MS and 1 reno by one year                  5

Developer funds for Mills Park Elementary                              4.8

Project savings (River Bend, Lynn Rd, Banks Rd, E. Millbrook)   6.6

Project savings at Aversboro E., Wendell M.                             1.9

Additional funds for Smith expantion                                     -3.4

Total potential for reallocation                                                          40.4

Thursday, Jun1 22, 2006 - Regarding 2006 Bond

Q: Will these year-round conversions be permanent?
A: School leaders say they hope the conversions are temporary
and that they can move back to the traditional calendar
at some point. But with the district projected to
add another 72,000 students by 2015, converted schools
are expected to remain year-round for a long time.
(bond 2006)
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re; N. Garner Middle (7/08)

 

YR schools -- the impact on differentiated services.  There are probably only enough students to fill two classes of advanced language arts, but those students are distributed across 4 tracks.  So, rather than having a traditional calendar with 2 Advanced Language Arts, there's a YR calendar with none.

August 2008 - News and Observer

Schools over-estimated student enrollment by 2,290 students last year. As a result, the school system received $5.7 million more than Cooke said was warranted (N&O)
 
Wake says there were 131,621 students in school on Monday — 4,269 more than the first day in 2007. Wake would need to gain 7,626 students by Day 20 to reach the revised projection of 139,247 students.
 
Keep in mind that the official projection this year, jointly adopted last year by the school board and county commissioners, is 140,443 students. School administrators lowered the number in June.
(N&O)

 

Horace Tart on why the 22 schools were converted to Year Round

 
Horace Tart, chairman of the school board’s facilities committee, argued at the joint meeting that it’s a misconception that the goal was to gain 3,000 seats from the conversions this school year. He’s responding to those who’ve criticized the conversions because those schools haven’t seen the enrollment gains that had been originally projected.

 

Tart said that the 3,000 seats were to be gained by the 2008-09 school year. He has previously said at a facilities committee meeting that they didn’t need the capacity gains at once but decided that phasing in the conversions over two years would have been more disruptive.
 

http://www.wcpss.net/growth/downloads/final_cip_2007_09.pdf

Why convert traditional single-track elementary schools to multi-track year-round

calendars?

Conversion of some elementary schools to multi-track calendars will be done to generate an immediate capacity gain of approximately 3,000 seats for the 2007-08 school year. The 18 new elementary schools opening in the next five years will all open as multi-track year-round schools.

Over the next 25 years, the utilization of the multi-track elementary calendar will reduce the number of new elementary schools needed from 101 to 72, saving over one billion dollars in school construction costs. Delivery of instruction in elementary schools will not be negatively impacted by conversion to a multi-track calendar.

November 21, 2005

The board agreed to consider to convert a school from the traditional to the year-round calendar if 60 percent of the families attending a school favor conversion. In earlier conversion votes, the board required that 80 percent of the families agree to conversion of the calendar.

November 21, 2005

FACT:The board agreed schools scheduled for a voluntary or involuntary conversion from traditional to year round should be identified at least 10 months prior to the start of a school year.” http://137.118.8.244/Calendar/_online_newsletters_school_construction_2005_nov21_index.html

November 21, 2005

The board agreed to consider to convert a school from the traditional to the year-round calendar if 60 percent of the families attending a school favor conversion. In earlier conversion votes, the board required that 80 percent of the families agree to conversion of the calendar.

 

 

The board agreed schools scheduled for a voluntary or involuntary conversion from traditional to year round should be identified at least 10 months prior to the start of a school year.” http://137.118.8.244/Calendar/_online_newsletters_school_construction_2005_nov21_index.html