About WakeEdNews

WakeEdNews is a portal for news that affects public schools and public charter schools in Wake County, NC. We seek to keep you informed about state and local events that affect our schools, and we’ll report news from individual schools, as well as from individual teachers, students, and staff. Because politicians love to tinker with our schools, we’ll report on national, state, and local political issues if they affect public schools. The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) had a $2.23 billion budget for the 2024-25 school year and an average daily enrollment of 161,115 students, in 203 schools. When WCPSS does a great job with that money and those students get an excellent education, we’ll say so in these pages. And when WCPSS falls short, we’ll talk about that, too.