TWSB believes that there are a number of key initiatives and policies that will solve the rampant problems in the WCPSS:
Use of common sense approaches to assigning students to schools, rather than social engineering
Revision of the student assignment policy, which includes supporting stability for individual students, keeping siblings together, and recognizing families as individuals rather than nodes within a system
Creation of additional options for parents and students when a proposed assignment is unfavorable
Use of busing only to ease overcrowding as a short-term solution while new schools are built in the neighborhoods that need them NOW!
Removal of non-education responsibilities from the WCPSS, including construction, land purchases, transportation and food services
Support of at-large school board elections, currently being proposed in the N.C. General Assembly
Support the need for a full capacity audit of the schools
Reverse mandatory year-round assignments and instead support parental choice
And most importantly,elect a Wake County School Board that agrees with the above positions and will sign a pledge to prove it -- therefore creating transparent and accountable governance for parents, children and Wake County taxpayers. But how??
There are currently four school board seats up for re-election on October 6 – out of a total of nine seats. We need those four seats to be filled by responsive leaders committed to changing the existing policies that aren’t working and actually listening to the key stakeholders! We found those leaders in Chris Malone, John Tedesco, Deborah Prickett and Debra Goldman.
These elections are already proving to be contentious, and it will take money ensure their victories. A donation of any amount to the TWSB PAC will go directly to the four candidates’ campaigns.
A donation of $1000 sure beats a year of private school tuition, doesn’t it??
