This October’s Wake County school board election is shaping up to be the most interesting race in a long, long time. Four seats are open, and now three separate political action committees have been formed to push for electing board members that support, among other things, neighborhoods schools. The third group filed today, according to this News & Observer blog.
In short, these groups and other individuals have had enough of Wake County’s misguided economic diversity policy and the current board’s unwillingness to study the impact of the policy on student achievement, particularly since a Queens University researcher has compared Wake to Charlotte/Mecklenburg, and it’s not good news for Wake’s busing policy.
