Saturday marked the second day of the Wake County Public School System's Family and Community Engagement Summit.
Day one focused on educators, while Saturday was tailored to families, who participated in breakout sessions, heard from keynote speakers and visited resource booths.
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Resources were a priority for many parents in attendance.
"I'm killing myself trying to make sure I can find resources for him," said Shakema McClean, who is a parent of a special education student.
Special education funding is a target of potential cuts as district leaders work on next fiscal year's budget.
Superintendent Robert Taylor confirmed to WRAL that he's looking to cut 130 special education positions. The district says it needs to slash $18 million from the special education budget. Taylor spoke to WRAL before giving his State of the Schools address on day one of the summit.
"We're not in a deficit now, but if we do the exact same thing next year, that causes us to be a deficit," Taylor said on Friday.
The potential cuts sparked teacher protests on Thursday.
"If those educators and those professionals and special folks are pulled from the school, that puts more burden on the parent, that puts more burden on the school system, and the children react to this because they see this," said McClean.
The summit's speakers and booths gave help on reading, health and tech. Some parents called on the district to do more to teach students how to use artificial intelligence.
"It's very uncertain right now for the kids who are graduating out of school and what will be their future," parent Divya Vutukuru said.
In his comments to WRAL, Taylor said some special education teachers may have to serve more students, but that all students would get needed services and no regional program would be affected.