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Wake: Why the Battle over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters

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By (author): Karey Alison Harwood

The Wake County Public School System was once described as a beacon of hope for American school districts. It was both academically successful and successfully integrated. It accomplished these goals through the hard work of teachers and administrators, and through a student assignment policy that made sure no school in the countywide district became a high poverty school. Although most students attended their closest school, the diversity policy modified where some students were assigned to make sure no school had more than 40% of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch or more than 25% performing below grade level. When the school board election of 2009 swept into office a majority who favored neighborhood schools, the diversity policy that had governed student assignment for years was eliminated. Wake: Why the Battle Over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters tells the story of the aftermath of that election, including the fierce public debate that ensued during school board meetings and in the pages of the local newspaper, and the groundswell of community support that voted in a pro-diversity school board in 2011. What was at stake in those years was the fundamental direction of the largest school district in North Carolina and the 14th largest in the U.S. Would it maintain a commitment to diverse schools, and if so, how would it balance that commitment with various competing interests and demands? Through hundreds of published opinion articles and several in depth interviews with community leaders, Wake examines the substance of that debate and explores the communitys vision for public education. Wake also explores the importance of knowing the history of a place, including the history of school segregation. Wake Countys example still resonates, and the battle over diverse public schools still matters, because owning responsibility for the problem of segregated schools (or not) will shape the direction of Americas future.
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  • Weight: 399g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 17 May 2024
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781978836570

About Karey Alison Harwood

KAREY HARWOOD teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh North Carolina. She is the author of The Infertility Treadmill: Feminist Ethics Personal Choice and the Use of Reproductive Technologies (University of North Carolina Press 2007) and a parent of children who attended Wake County Public Schools.

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