Tedesco announces bid for top state schools post – WRAL

Raleigh, N.C. — Wake County school board member John Tedesco announced Thursday that he’s seeking the post this year as the state’s top education official.

"I think it’s critical, at this time, that our children in North Carolina have a true champion who is willing to fight for the complex issues that will give them opportunities in education," Tedesco told WRAL News. (More)

Wake County School Board Member “THE TEDESCO PICTURES I MISSED” –Source: The Cash Roc

I want to thank Jeffrey Wotus, a constant, yet unhinged critic of mine, for digging up these new John Tedesco pictures from when Tedesco served as Borough Administrator for the small municipality of Highlands, NJ from 2000-2002. (Read more)

Response: You must see these pictures. Curmilus Dancy II – The Political Agitator

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A Must Read – ANSWERING JOHN TEDESCO’S WAKEED BLOG RESPONSE PART 1 – Source: The Cash Rock

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A Must Read – ANSWERING JOHN TEDESCO’S WAKEED BLOG RESPONSE PART 1 – Source: The Cash Rock

      I have been reading, with great interest and equal amusement, Wake School Board Vice Chairman John Tedesco’s response to my story, "“Chairman” Tedesco An Issue in District 3 Wake School Board Race." (Read more)

Response: This article is too damn good but make sure you read other articles as well. Curmilus Dancy II – The Political Agitator

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Proximity was key in Wake’s school plans – Source: News & Observer

RALEIGH — Wake County school officials are willing to go only so far to keep individual schools from having too many struggling students – especially when steps in that direction might conflict with providing families schools closer to where they live. (Read more)

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Tedesco warns of ‘unholy trinity’ of liberals–Source: News & Observer

Wake County school board member John Tedesco has what he calls his own version of a liberal "unholy trinity."

During a recent speech to the Northern Wake Republican Club, Tedesco said the members of the unholy trinity are the NAACP, the Great Schools in Wake Coalition and Raleigh FIST, a self-proclaimed anarchist group. All three groups have been fiercely critical of the school board for eliminating the use of socioeconomic diversity in student assignment. (Read more)

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Wake schools didn’t keep busing for diversity records – Source: WRAL

Raleigh, N.C. — School district leaders in Wake County are turning over hundreds of documents to federal investigators in response to a charge that a controversial new student assignment policy will create unequal, high-poverty schools, but some requested data was missing. (Read more)

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John Tedesco to speak tonight at Americans for Prosperity event in Greensboro–Source:

You can hang out tonight with Wake County school board member John Tedesco to watch a movie that bashes the role of teacher unions in the U.S. public education system.

Tedesco is the special guest for a 6:30 p.m. showing of the documentary "The Cartel" at the Guilford County Republican Party Headquarters, 3950 West Market St, in Greensboro. (Read more)

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Wake County – Neighborhood Schools Now But What About Long Term

I was talking to someone today and they were saying that the neighborhood schools thingy sounds good in the now but what about in the long term? They went on to say that it will be great now because the resources will be at the school but what will happen when the resources begin to move out in a couple of years. The excitement and the resources will be gone and what will you have? It is sad to say but the school will end up being ghetto.

So those who are preaching neighborhood schools are they concerned about the now or are they concerned about the long term effect?

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WOUNDED WAKE SCHOOL BOARD CONCEDES TO AGENCY PROBE by Cash Michaels

         When the Republican-led Wake County School Board came out of its 50-minute closed door session with it attorneys Tuesday morning, it was clear that the majority had a dramatic “come to Jesus” moment.

            By a 6-2 vote, which included two of the GOP majority, the board did a 180, and agreed to cooperate with a probe conducted by the school accreditation agency AdvancEd, a probe that just two weeks ago, it fought against tooth and nail. (Read more)

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The Word–Disintegration The Colbert Report On Wake County Public Schools Comedy Central

Last night Comedian Stephen Colbert did a thing on Wake County Public Schools on Comedy Central talking about disintegration.

Watch 4:53 video.

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Billionaire Koch Brothers Fulfill Father’s Campaign to Segregate Public Schools, End Successful Integration Program in Wake County North Carolina

Today in the Washington Post, reporter Stephanie McCrummen detailed how a right-wing campaign in the Wake County area of North Carolina has taken over the school board with a pledge to end a very successful socio-economic integration plan. The integration plan, which created thriving schools in poor African-American parts of the school district along with achieving diversity in schools located in wealthy white enclaves, was a model for the nation. However, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the Tea Party group founded and funded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, worked with local right-wing financier (and AFP board member) Art Pope to fundamentally change Wake County’s school board

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By Lee Fang | Think Progress
Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Note: Now this is very, very interesting. The struggle continues. And some people are shocked. Not!! You see this is the long lasting effects of how black have suffered but some don’t think that reparations is in order especially some need to grow Negroes. You see those from these families mentioned in this article continue to reap the benefits of their heritage, the almighty dollar and calling the shots politically. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

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Read The CAROLINIAN real story by Cash Michaels about the Tedesco/Margiotta scheme to get over 6,000 SouthEast Raleigh students re-assigned back to their neighborhoods. The school system’s own documents prove it:

THE TEDESCO SCHEME
By Cash Michaels, Editor
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The agenda for the Nov. 30th Student Assignment Committee (SAC) meeting, chaired by Wake School Board member John Tedesco, was simple.

The committee would review and approve the minutes from the prior meeting.

The three board members, and nine citizen representatives appointed by all nine school board members, would get a staff overview and update on where they were per the third year of the multi-year assignment plan they were supposed to fine tune.

And the last agenda item listed, “An opportunity to share concerns related to school assignment issues in the 2011-12 school year.

As it happened, all but one of the Republican board members and citizen representatives knew exactly what that last agenda listing meant, and they were ready. (Read more)

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Wake County Public Schools BOE News

Hello! Here is the weekend’s BOE news.

 

Federal investigators grilling WCPSS

Why did the current BOE drop the diversity policy? That’s one of the questions being asked by federal civil rights investigators, according to the N&O. More than $70 million in federal aid could be at risk, pending the investigation’s outcome.

 

Diverse schools, healthy neighborhoods

Steve Ford expounds on how diverse schools can foster more integrated neighborhoods in this editorial. He concludes stating, "…the fact that school quality (in Wake County) has been maintained at a fairly consistent and high level throughout the county has stabilized neighborhoods by reducing incentives to move away from markedly poor schools. Wake is economically sounder because, with diversity as a guiding principle, educational opportunities have been safeguarded for all students – setting a standard for today’s leaders to uphold."

 

Intent for magnet, calendar students

There seems to be some confusion regarding the deadline for magnet and calendar (year-round) applicant students to indicate whether they want to continue with their current school assignment for the 2011-12 school year. In a previous update, Jan. 10 was the indicated deadline. However, postcards received during the weekend list midnight on Mon., Dec. 20, as the deadline for indicating intent. I recommend using the Dec. 20th date. Then, apparently, you have until Jan. 10 to change your mind. Here is the link. Sorry for the confusion.

 

LTEs

Goldman’s courage

Tax cuts’ price

 

Thanks for staying engaged with WCPSS.

 

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We need a 5th vote, Wake schools bloc says–Source: News & Observer

RALEIGH — Most Republicans on the Wake County school board are bemoaning the loss of their majority for neighborhood schools, a serious blow to their mission to phase out the former board’s diversity-based student assignment plan.

The lamenters, who include Chairman Ron Margiotta, said it will require gaining a new majority next year in elections to break the panel’s stalemate and push through the changes they’ve promised in the state’s largest school district. (Read more)

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The Public School Forum’s Friday Report – October 8

Public School Forum & Friday Report

 

 

The Public School Forum’s Friday Report – October 8

http://www.ncforum.org/doclib/2010_1008.pdf

Drama Abounds at Wake County School Board Meetings
Since a new majority took control of the Wake County School Board, it has attracted local, regional and national news attention – not all of it flattering – as it moved to dismantle Wake’s diversity policy on student assignments. The new majority, a slim one with a 5-4 vote margin, has been rushing to finalize a new student assignment policy that it claims would have students attending schools in their neighborhoods while somehow avoiding clustering low-income, minority young people in inner-city Raleigh schools.

The new majority came close to imploding this week as a member of the 1 vote majority joined with the 4 person minority faction on the school board and voted to “cease any planning that would create to a zone-based assignment plan.”

Whether this is a permanent or temporary realignment of power on the Wake Board remains to be seen, but tempers frayed at this week’s meeting and comments from John Tedesco, the new majority Board member who has been driving the creation of a zone-based plan, seemed to signal an end to the new majority.

In debate, Debra Goldman, the Board member who reversed her vote and sided with the minority in ending plans for Tedesco’s zone-based plan, said at one point, “Now, John (i.e., Tedesco), don’t get all upset. Calm yourself down” to which Tedesco shot back, “You calm down, prom queen!”
He went a step farther at one point offering Goldman a hand shake and saying, “I’ve enjoyed our friendship while it lasted.” Later he claimed that opponents of the new majority had “played Goldman like a fiddle,” and said further “She’s not a swing vote. I’m ready to be done with her.”
Stay tuned for the next chapters in the Wake County saga. The situation would be amusing if the outcome of the on-going debate didn’t impact over 140,000 in North Carolina’s largest school system.

Civitas Institute Goes Purely Political
The Civitas Institute, a conservative would-be think tank that calls itself a “voter education” organization, has created a political action arm, Civitas Action Inc. and is spending money opposing Senate Leader Marc Basnight and House Speaker Joe Hackney. Reports filed with the State Board of Election show that the group has raised $264,899, $190,000 of which came from Variety Wholesalers, the retail store chain owned by former state legislator Art Pope. The remaining $74,899 came from Americans for Prosperity, another conservative group with close ties to the John Locke Foundation and the Civitas Institute.

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