Monday numbers

1—number of days until Wake County Board of Education is scheduled to take final vote on abandoning nationally recognized student diversity policy (Wake County Public Schools)

40—number of years of research suggesting that all students do better in economically mixed schools than in high poverty schools. (Richard Kahlenburg, Great Schools in Wake Forum, March 20, 2010)

3—percentage of Wake County students bused for diversity (Healthy Schools Task Force Executive Summary)

20—length in minutes of the average bus ride for students in Wake County schools (N.C. Department of Public Instruction)

91—percentage of Wake County elementary school students who attend a school within five miles of their home (Wake County Public School system)

99—percentage of all Wake County students who attend school within 10 miles of their home (Ibid)

48—-number of schools opened in Wake County since 2000 to meet the demands of population growth (Wake County Public School system)

48,000—number of seats created by the new schools opened since 2000 (Wake County Public School system)

46,000—number of reassignments made since 2000 (Great Schools in Wake Fact Sheet—Transportation)

84—rank of Wake County Schools per pupil spending among state's 115 school districts (Wake County Public Schools)

20 million-amount in dollars of cuts that must be made in Wake County Schools' budget to respond to revenue shortfall from state funding cuts (Wake County School system)

15.5 million-amount in dollars that Wake County Schools will lose because of recent vote by new majority to abandon existing site for new high school in Northern Wake County in favor of new site (Wake Ed Blog, February 16, 2010)

10—number of months since Wake School Board Chair Ron Margiotta called for abolishing magnet schools in Wake County (News & Observer, May 13, 2009)

11—number of days since Wake School Board Chair Ron Margiotta called for breaking up Wake County Schools into smaller districts in speech to Northern Wake Republican Club (WRAL.com)

450—number of people who attended forum Saturday held by Great Schools in Wake to oppose efforts to abandon current diversity policy (Great Schools in Wake Coalition)

33—number of local religious leaders who signed a letter asking the Wake County Board of Education to keep the current diversity policy in student assignment (WRAL.com)

94.5-percentage of Wake County parents who said they were satisfied with their child's school in a recent survey conducted by the Wake County School system (Wake County Schools' calendar survey)