Wake County public schools’ student assignment debate will be back in the spotlight Tuesday with two meetings about the controversial topic.
Just one week after her vote stopped the current neighborhood school plan in it tracks, Board Vice Chairwoman Debra Goldman will discuss her concerns at 6:30 p.m. at Cary Town Hall.
Before that, the School Assignment Committee will meet at 11:30 a.m. at the school administration building. Committee members will work on a new assignment plan and try to figure out how to move forward after last week’s tumultuous meeting.
The committee’s focus will likely be on magnet schools and how those schools could be affected by the new assignment plan.
Last Tuesday, the school board voted 5-3 to kill a student assignment revision process that was headed toward assigning students to zones instead of the district’s longstanding policy of busing students to help create socio-economic diversity throughout the school system.
Goldman introduced a resolution to scrap the 16-zone plan, saying there hadn’t been enough input from parents and other board members.
John Tedesco, who heads the board’s Student Assignment Committee, which drafted the plan, responded to Goldman on his Facebook page last week.
“Then tonight, Benedict Goldman voted with the four minority members to do away with our efforts for community-based assignments and declared things should stay as is with the forced busing diversity model in place,” Tedesco wrote.
The two former allies traded jabs at school board meetings last Tuesday in what was sometimes a tense and contentious exchange of words.
source: WRAL.com
