Tag: Wake County schools

National study: Good schools a key to home values

April 20, 2012 at 8:19 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Not that it comes as much of a surprise, but another national study has confirmed what advocates for maintaining school intregration in Wake County have been saying for years: good schools drive up home values.

According to the Brookings Institution as reported by CNN: “Home values are $205,000 higher, on average, in neighborhoods with high-scoring public schools versus schools with low scores.” 

In other words, Wake County’s longstanding reputation as being a place in which “there are no bad schools” is an enormous boon to real estate values and overall economic wellbeing throughout the county. To the extent the powers that be (like Superintendent Tata and the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce) continue allow the gradual re-segregation of schools by income, they are sure to bring about a widespread decline in home values in many areas and a rapidly expanding gap between various sections of the county.

Three jobs proving tough for Tedesco

March 28, 2012 at 11:25 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Under the Dome reports this morning that Tea Partying Wake County School Board member John Tedesco is finding it tough to run for state office and fulfill his obligations to the citizens of Wake County.

This morning he apparently skipped a Board function to go to Winston-Salem to speak at a Tea Party co-sponsored forum for GOP state Superintendent candidates.

As we’ve also noted here recently, it doesn’t appear that his paying job is getting a whole lot of attention either.

Nine months for Tedesco’s group and still nothing there

March 19, 2012 at 9:11 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Last Friday was the nine-month anniversary for Wake School board member and state Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate John Tedesco’s North Carolina Center for Education Reform. And as we reported on the six-month anniversary, the evident output of actual work from the group remains, despite Tedesco’s healthy salary, a big fat goose egg.  

The “group” still has a superficially attractive website, but don’t look to close lest you find yourself having to endure the tortured grammar or the embarrassing attempts to describe the Center’s “work”(all of which appears to remain essentially hypothetical).

Here’s another fun bit of complete gibberish from the site that refers to an incomprehensible “initiative”called “Connect Ed”: Read More…

Tata’s apology a hopeful sign

February 27, 2012 at 12:06 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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As noted in this space last week, Wake County schools Superintendent Anthony Tata blew his cool and overstepped the bounds of his position when he wrongfully questioned the ethics of some school board members with whom he’s apparently been having some differences.

Happily, it appears that Tata has now backed off of his inaccurate and inappropriate attack. Last Friday, he signed on to a joint statement with the board members in question in which acknowledged the errors of his ways. Good for him.

Let’s hope it’s the start of a new and positive trend in the Wake County schools in which Read More…

The General flips his lid

February 22, 2012 at 9:39 amCategory:Uncategorized

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Caring and thoughtful people have been skeptical of Wake County schools superintendent Anthony Tata ever since the Tea Partying former military man with extremely limited education experience was installed a little over a year ago by the re-segregationist school board majority that had been wielding a wrecking ball on the school system. Many of these people, however, bit their tongues over the past 13 months in an effort to be open-minded and supportive of attempts to build bridges and find common ground.

Now, however, it’s quite clear that such efforts were futile and that Tata is little more than a puppet voice for the same forces that owned and manipulated the former “gang of five” — that is, the far right, Art Pope-Bob Luddy-Paul Stam school privatization crowd that’s been doing everything in its power to undermine free and diverse public schools.

The final confirmation of Tata’s true colors can be seen Read More…