The Echo

By Christina Samuels on February 13, 2011 11:35 PM

Early last year, the Wake County school board, with the support of a newly elected bloc of Republican-backed members, did away with a school assignment policy that tried to promote socioeconomic diversity among all the schools in the 143,000-student system.


Since that time, the struggle has been how to create a new policy that will maintain stability but also avoid creating schools with that are predominantly poor. Both sides have been able to wield statistics as weapons as they argue their points, but a group of articles that ran recently in the Raleigh News & Observer show that results of the diversity policy have been mixed. ...

More Here:
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/District_Dossier/2011/02/mixed_results_on_wake_countys_b.html
And Here:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/02/13/986365/5-big-questions-on-wake-schools.html