Wake Makes A Turn On Busing
Rather than continuing to make excuses for a failed policy, the political and educational establishment of Wake County needs to get some inkling of a clue.
In the face of all this public anger and empirical evidence, it must indeed be quite a strain to keep defending Wake County’s indefensible student-assignment policy.
RALEIGH — Parents who oppose reassignment and socioeconomic busing in Wake County want to “roll back diversity,” said county commissioner Stan Norwalk at a recent public forum in downtown Raleigh. But others who spoke at the forum said the current system is failing minority students.
There appears to be no valid statistical case at the moment for the proposition that Wake County’s social engineering improves student performance.
APEX — Parents, students, and elected officials used a Wake County School Board public hearing this week at Apex High School to criticize the district’s reassignment policy that often shuffles students from school to school in the name of diversity.
Is Mecklenburg government 16 percent more valuable than Wake government? By all accounts, objective and subjective, the answer would be no. Yet that’s how much more it costs.