"RALEIGH -- There is no dispute that the Wake County school system needs to do a better job of educating low-income students, but emotional arguments flare over whether the answer is to end busing for diversity.
The Wake school board's new majority is calling for a return to neighborhood schools and pointing to a task force it has created to try to reduce suspensions and improve test scores and graduation rates among poor and minority students. Opponents of the majority counter that the task force doesn't make up for the de facto resegregation of schools they fear will take place if the diversity policy is eliminated.
The board's new majority has pledged to eliminate the diversity policy and is now controlling the direction of the state's largest school district."
The Wake school board's new majority is calling for a return to neighborhood schools and pointing to a task force it has created to try to reduce suspensions and improve test scores and graduation rates among poor and minority students. Opponents of the majority counter that the task force doesn't make up for the de facto resegregation of schools they fear will take place if the diversity policy is eliminated.
The board's new majority has pledged to eliminate the diversity policy and is now controlling the direction of the state's largest school district."