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North Carolina School Board About to End Diversity Policy

INSIGHT Into Diversity has been covering the situation with the Wake County school system for the past few months, and the school board is now poised to officially end 30 years of policy designed to promote school diversity in favor of moving North Carolina’s largest district toward neighborhood schools. The school board is expected to give final approval today to eliminating references to diversity in the student assignment policy and make it a priority to send students to schools near where they live. While critics complain that the change will lead to racial resegregation, members of the new board majority and their supporters say the diversity policy hasn't worked. Click here to read more from the News & Observer.
 
 



INSIGHT Into Diversity