New Lines Are Drawn In Wake
Wednesday, September 01 2010
by Dave DeWitt
Eric Hodge: The Wake County School Board is one step closer to implementing its plan to assign students closer to home. A committee has given initial approval to breaking up the district into assignment zones. Dave DeWitt reports.
Dave DeWitt: The School Board’s student assignment committee had been considering several versions of a student assignment map. The one they settled on is made up of 16 zones, based on the number of high schools in the system. Specific details will still be worked out over the next year. If implemented as-is, several of the zones would dramatically increase the number of high-poverty schools in Wake County - at the same time, it would decrease the number of students bussed to schools out of their neighborhoods. The assignment zones will replace a system that uses socio-economic diversity as one factor in student assignment.
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