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Raleigh's Innovative Economic Diversity Plan
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
3/1/2010
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On Sunday, The New York Times outlined the growing threat to Wake County (Raleigh), North Carolina’s innovative and successful plan to integrate schools by economic status. The program, which was lauded in the Times five years ago for its ability to increase minority achievement, while maintaining high achievement for whites, seeks to ensure that no school has more than 40% of students eligible for subsidized lunches. This past October, however, the plan came under attack in the ostensibly nonpartisan school board election, where opponents of the diversity plan were heavily funded by the Republican Party.Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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