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CARY, N.C. -- Tuesday is the day the dynamic shifts on the Wake County School Board. The newly-elected Democrat-backed members will be sworn in, creating a new majority on the board.

The new Democrats are Susan Evans, Christine Kushner and Jim Martin. Kevin Hill and Keith Sutton are re-elected incumbents who create the new majority on the board. The question now is if they'll change the long-debated student assignment plan.

Hill wants the new board to get to work addressing concerns with the plan emphasizing neighborhood schools and parent choice over the system's long standing policy of busing for diversity.

I've requested a work session," said Hill. "Even the superintendent has said we've got some things we need to work on with this plan and I feel with this new board in place, let's look at it and work on them."

But members of the existing Republican-backed majority say it's too late to make changes.

"Some of our schools have already begun the choice application process; our new leadership schools and come Dec. 5, our magnet schools," said board member John Tedesco. "It would be somewhat unfair I think if our schools have already begun the process, our families have already been choosing, and then all of a sudden we go and change that process mid-selection."

One of the most dividing issues is whether or not the new board will change the assignment plan in order to reserve seats at high-performing schools for low-performing students.

"If you look at the document, it says we need to have guaranteed set-asides for low-performing students at high-performing schools," said Hill. "The superintendent said that in a June press conference. I think we need to consider that."

But for Tedesco, the battle has already been fought.

"If they want to go back and re-hash old battles, it's going to be a 5-4 vote on most of those issues again," he said.

Hill has already requested the new board hold that work session as early as Wednesday.