It’s been a long time coming, but at 3 p.m. today, the new Wake County school board will be sworn in. Four new members who campaigned against the current board policy of busing kids across the county to achieve economic “balance” will join Ron Margiotta as the new governing majority, 5 to 4.
I doubt it will be long before the new members push to delve into the SAS report and whether or not the Wake system is accurately reporting the performance and achievement of low-income kids. Let’s hope Wake taxpayers finally get a real assessment of the busing policy and its impact on kids — something the previous board did not want to do.
In the meantime, there is positive news for the parents in the Wake system. Locke Foundation education policy analyst Terry Stoops reports that Wake has improved its grade for “parent-friendliness” from a “C” to a “C+”. Stoops discusses his analysis in this interview.
