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The school board is moving toward a school assignment plan intended to promote diversity. Can they do so and avoid the problems of the past?
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The Wake County school board took the first steps Tuesday toward trying to ensure again that schools have diverse enrollments, but members said they’re not proposing to force children to attend schools far from where they live.
In a 7-1 vote, the board gave preliminary approval to a revised student assignment policy that seeks to minimize high concentrations of low-performing students and students from low-income families at each school.
" the system will make use of a new Office of Equity and Diversity. The office is included in an $8.3 million funding increase for the coming fiscal year that the board voted Tuesday to request from county commissioners."
So now it will actually cost everyone to fund this diversity......
They used to say this would save everyone money, I guess they are just being blunt now.
Glad to see that the vote was basiclaly agreed upon by all but one member. Having all members agree with a preliminary assignment policy will be very helpful moving forward with this.
I alwys knew they'd come back to it eventually because it worked here for the majority for many decades. Bascially they're doing what I've said they should do all along: keep assingments close to home and not force moves. Manybe they should read CD!
" the system will make use of a new Office of Equity and Diversity.
BUt it doesn't say what that office will do. It merely says it will "be used at schools that can't be balanced by student assignment". So the areas with the highest concentration of low-performing students will use this office but for what purpose the reporter doesn't feel the need to say.
I certainly don't want our schools to become "have" schools and "have not" schools. That's terrible for education, and it would be awful for our economy. There are those who think that being able to afford a more expensive house entitles their children to a better public education.
I certainly don't want our schools to become "have" schools and "have not" schools. That's terrible for education, and it would be awful for our economy. There are those who think that being able to afford a more expensive education entitles their children to a better public education.
Then the school board needs to allocate funds effectively to prevent this from happening. Instead of spending money on a diversity office, give it to the low performing schools.
The office is included in an $8.3 million funding increase for the coming fiscal year that the board voted Tuesday to request from county commissioners.
I certainly don't want our schools to become "have" schools and "have not" schools. That's terrible for education, and it would be awful for our economy. There are those who think that being able to afford a more expensive house entitles their children to a better public education.
You could also look at it like this - rather than focusing on diversity, focus on quality of education and ensuring all schools are equipped and students supported.
Diversity has value of course, but moving students around simply to blend in the bad with the good and make the whole system look better helps the administrators and politicians, not necessarily the students.
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So the areas with the highest concentration of low-performing students will use this office but for what purpose the reporter doesn't feel the need to say.
