Here is "one" part of the solution for the Wake County School System

[poppydog]

But they didn't really. They just never merged the city and county systems in the 70s like Wake County. I'm not aware of any county systems in North Carolina that have been broken up in the past 50 years of modern integrated education.

[papilgee4evaeva]

Originally Posted by poppydog

But they didn't. They just never merged the city and county systems. I'm not aware of any county systems in North Carolina that have been broken up.

That was kind of my (admittedly ill-formulated) point. That someone would bring that up as a counterpoint without the proper context.

[poppydog]

Ah, gotcha.

[wheelsup]

The state where I grew up collected tax revenue statewide and distributed it semi equallly throughout the various schools in the state. You went to public schools in city ran schools unless you were rural then they combined it. Seems to have worked fairly well, test scores were always pretty good. It gave everyone a fair and equitable shot at an education.

News flash, the rich kids will always have a better shot...parents will send kids to private school, or pay for tutoring, etc.

The reality is you need to look beyond funding for why some kids do better and some not so well. Money can't buy results which has been proven over and over again.

[rfb]

Segregating rich students and poor students in this part of the country tends to lead to racially segregated schools. We already have this, with schools like Southeast Raleigh being >90% black/latino, while schools like Green Hope is ~90% white/asian. It is, unfortunately, easy to guess which of the two schools has a large number of underperforming students. I'm not a fan of converting the predominately poor, minority schools into trade schools while the predominantly white schools prepare their students for college.