Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation director of education studies, contrasts the Wake County and Charlotte-Mecklenburg approaches to public school student assignment policies. Stoops offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 377).
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