Quick exercise in reading between the lines here:

Academic achievement of low socioeconomic and minority students in Lee County Schools is higher or close to that of the same groups of students in highly-regarded Wake, Durham and Chapel Hill-Carrboro and several other area school districts, according to a recent in-depth study done by Lee County Schools.

Not only do low socioeconomic/minority students in the public schools of Lee County generally do better than their counterparts in similar schools in other districts, but they do so while staying at the school closest to their home, said Superintendent Jim McCormick. …

“We don’t move our youngsters around artificially to move the percentages; we move the resources,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, black or white, we’ll move the resources to you. We don’t use race or economics as discriminatory factors. We treat to wherever the child is.”

Some local education experts — self-appointed and otherwise — stilll don’t get that.