Last week, U.S. News and World Report peddled Wake County’s student assignment method as a marvelous example of a school system using income, rather than race, as a “path to diversity.”
Today, John Hood recounts the story of one family who had no choice but to leave Wake County for the constant fear of being tussled about by the school system’s assignment policies.
It is easy to praise Wake County’s assignment method from afar, but, until now, few have been willing to talk about the human toll that such policies have on the lives of real families.
