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Some Wake County parents and makeshift organizations are fomenting opposition to the school board’s move to make some elementary schools year-round. The Wake County school board, aware of voters’ reticent to pass an exorbitant school bond, is looking for ways to cut costs – year-round conversions being one. But as opposition mounts, and news coverage demonizes, other options are being left out.  Trying to highlight the role of charter schools in assuaging school costs, Terry Stoops spoke both to WRAL and a Wake County school bond forum.

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