This week the vaunted magazine, “The Economist” featured an article on the schools here in Wake County:
…In 2000 Wake County’s school board decided to integrate its schools by income level rather than race. No more than 40% of students at any one school should be receiving free or subsidised lunches (which are given to children from poor families). Evidence dating back more than 40 years shows that schools with too great a concentration of poor pupils are undesirable. Teachers do not stay, and poor pupils tend to perform worse when they are put with others who are poor.
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…on March 23rd the board voted 5-4 to abandon that policy.
