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RALEIGH – The Wake County school board continues to get questions from parents as it moves closer to adopting a new student assignment plan. It will host another information session Wednesday night at Apex High School.

The meeting will be the third of six for parents who want to know how the proposed assignment plan will effect their children.

Student assignment task force members have been doing what they can to answer parents questions as the district goes through the huge transition of reassignment.

During the previous informational meetings, most parents just had one simple question: Where will my child go to school?

“The node I've been assigned to the whole time we've been living in our neighborhood has been Athens Drive. We've been told there's going to be some options to choose two other high schools – Cary and/or Apex. How are they going to decide who gets their first choice, second choice, third choice?” said Wake County parent Spencer Combos.

Parents were also concerned the proposed student assignment plan could bump their children out of their current school in order to reserve seats for other students, but task force members say families who are happy in their school won't be forced out.

On Tuesday night, the task force created and led by Superintendent Tony Tata briefed the board on its progress, saying it hopes to gives parents the option of keeping students in their current school.

"If we do move forward with the choice plan, it's really students who want to participate and rising kindergartners that would need to participate," Susan Pullium, a member of the Student Assignment Task Force, said.

Task force members plan to take all the information gathered at these meetings and present a final draft to the school board next month.

The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. There will be another Thursday night at Southeast Raleigh High School.