A group called GreatSchools.org touts Raleigh and Cary as the No. 1 (large size) and No. 3 (midsize) cities in the country for public schools.

But as a News & Observer blurb notes, the group does take a shot at the new Wake County school board majority. 

Here’s the odd part: Read the entry on Raleigh, and you’ll learn that its best-in-the-country greatness stems from its focus on school choice. There’s no mention of forced busing, although the word “diverse” crops up twice.

It’s the entry on Cary that features the concerns about the new school board majority’s actions. 

As Locker Room in-house public education expert Terry Stoops puts it: “If choice is what made the district so great, then the school board majority is on the right track.”

And if Raleigh and Cary schools are so great, Terry wonders why Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools seem to be putting together better student performance gains: