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Schools Matter: Tata and Tedesco's New High-Poverty Segregated Walnut Creek Elem. Bulging at the Seams

Schools Matter: Tata and Tedesco's New High-Poverty Segregated Walnut Creek Elem. Bulging at the Seams:

Tata and Tedesco's New High-Poverty Segregated Walnut Creek Elem. Bulging at the Seams

When the resegregationist Gang of Five was elected in Wake County, NC in 2009, they set about to dismantle the most successful socioeconomic school integration plan in the U. S. Fortunately, the voters of Wake County recently booted the Board Chair and three of his lieutenants, thus restoring sanity to educational decision making in Raleigh.

During the brief reign of the neo-racists, however, a new elementary school was completed to serve as the first full-scale return to segregated schooling in Wake County. At a price tag of $25 million, the new Walnut Creek Elementary was designed with a capacity of 780 children. On September 22 of this year, the enrollment was