CARY, North Carolina (WTVD) -- The Wake County Public School System school board approved the 2018-19 assignment plan Tuesday night.
The board also proposed to approve the plan except for agenda items related to the new Buckhorn Creek Elementary School in Holly Springs.
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Buckhorn is slated to open as a traditional calendar school and would be filled with mostly students coming from year-round schools.
Amanda Liimatainen is one of many Holly Springs parents who have been speaking out against this. She spoke up again at Tuesday night's meeting.
"My middle-schooler would remain, he would be a rising eighth- grader in a year-round calendar and if Buckhorn Creek opened on a traditional calendar, my rising fourth-grader would go to a traditional calendar for two years and then go back into a year round calendar for middle school," said Liimatainen.
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The board will discuss Buckhorn Creek, which has not yet opened, as a separate matter. The board tabled that discussion to another meeting.
Earlier Tuesday, the Wake County Board of Education unanimously re-elected Monika Johnson-Hostler as board chair. Dr. Jim Martin was unanimously elected as vice-chair.