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Wake County (N.C.) school board criticized for plans to end diversity policy

Jan. 20, 2011
Attendance areas would be based on neighborhoods instead of socioeconomic diversity

From The Raleigh News & Observer: Many Wake County, N.C., residents are loudly criticizing the school board's efforts to end a longstanding diversity policy. In front of a rowdy crowd of several hundred at Southeast Raleigh High School, school board members heard from residents who chastised board members for their plans to switch to a neighborhood school system instead of assigning students based on socioeconomic diversity.

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