On Monday night, Lindalyn Kakadelis spoke to a group of Bertie County parents who are concerned over the potential closing of three local elementary schools due to a federal court order that says the school system has not fully complied with a 1968 order to desegregate the system. According to Don Carrington, who wrote about the issue in a December Carolina Beat commentary, Judge Terrence Boyle, who is monitoring compliance with the court order, ruled the school system “continued to operate a racially identifiable white elementary school.” Later in the week, Kakadelis took up the issue of school choice when she spoke to the Salisbury Rowan Republican Women’s Club and was interviewed by Lockwood Phillips on WTKF Radio in coastal Carolina. She discussed the No Child Left Behind law, graduation standards, and other related issues.
