Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses a new charter school proposed for Garner. The Wake County Public School System opposes the school. Stoops offered these comments during a Sept. 14, 2022, report on WRAL.
GARNER — Citing an increase in school suspensions, declining academic performance, and unequal economic opportunity, a group of Garner citizens pleaded with Wake County commissioners during a public hearing recently to help the parents get “the attention of the school board” about student reassignment and school construction issues.
RALEIGH – Is Wake County’s student assignment plan working in the best interests of student achievement? Not according to the group Assignment By Choice. Organized in the fall of 2002, the group was formed with the support of elected officials in Cary, Garner, and Apex. The group is trying to put pressure on the Wake County school system — the second-largest in the state — to end forced busing and replace it with parental choice with the public schools.
