Wake County (Raleigh and suburbs) voted for resegregated schools tonight

[dsc]

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6150533/#

Wake County voters gave a thumbs-down Tuesday to assigning local students based on socioeconomic factors by electing candidates to the Board of Education who oppose the controversial policy.

Chris Malone won the District 1 seat on the school board, while Deborah Pickett won in District 7 and Debra Goldman took District 9.

John Tedesco was leading in the District 2 race, with incumbent Horace Tart a distant third. But Tedesco lacked the majority of votes that would preclude a runoff next month.

All four candidates were endorsed by community groups like WakeCARES and the Wake Schools Community Alliance because they said they were willing to change the district's student assignment policies to favor neighborhood schools.

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It is a very sad outcome to say the least. Our schools are by no means perfect but for a large, urban school system we are better than most. Now we could go the way of places like Cleveland, Buffalo, and Chicago. These low turnout elections matter.

[bertman]

1. I didn't think they could legally do that, dsc. If it's true, I'm sorry to hear it.

Two steps forward, two steps back.

[Pavulon]

3. I live in carboro. This addresses the act

of distributing students around to maintain a percent of each school on free lunch. This indirectly correlates to race. The net impact is that some students are bussed to "better" schools and get access to better resources. It also served to hide disproportionate achievement by minorities in the stats of other students. So the root cause of dropout and low performance is not addressed.

[bertman]

5. I figured there was an ulterior motive but I still think it's illegal as hell.

P.S. I live in Chappa Heel and work in Carrburr.

:hi:

Howdy neighbor!

[Pavulon]

It could go either way, hopefully it will address

people who need help directly rather than moving them around the proverbial balance sheet. It all depends on how they choose to deal with real issues.

I do love the area, best place i have ever lived.

[Pavulon]

2. I live here and have friends in Mecklenburg county system. They did this years ago

it forces the school systems to address student performance instead of distributing them through the system to hide them until they drop out.

[dsc]

4. we out perform Mecklenburg in every single solitary statistic

except last year we had a very slightly higher drop out rate for our lower income students. We have better SAT scores, better EOC scores, a lower racial divide in our scores, and do that spending less per pupil than Mecklenburg does.

[bertman]

6. So, am I right? Isn't this illegal?? I thought we had a major court ruling against this years

ago over exactly this kind of bullshit.

[dsc]

7. that ruling was about race

this is about economics. Economic status isn't a protected class.

[Pavulon]

8. Hopefully it will be used to

help those who need it rather than burying them in the stats. regardless of race.

[subcomhd]

9. Maybe, and maybe it assures the subalterns a place at the table. nt