Would keeping the International Baccalaureate program at Broughton High School be an attack on Wake County's magnet school program?

As noted in today's article, some parents at Millbrook High and other magnet schools aren't happy about the prospect of Broughton remaining an IB school. After all, programs such as IB have previously only been offered at magnet schools in Wake.

“It’s the first step toward taking the magnet program down,” said Jody Gross, a parent at Millbrook High.

After all the Inside the Beltline vs. Outside the Beltline rhetoric that took place during the campaign, might the Broughton community have better luck after all with the new school board?

As noted in today's article, some Broughton High parents and students plan to lobby the new board to keep the school's International Baccalaureate program. There will be six new board members since last December's 5-4 vote to demagnetize Broughton.

One of the areas the Broughton magnet supporters will target is how the new board members seem more interested in using magnet schools for academic reasons than for diversity reasons. The old board said Broughton would be healthy enough without the IB program while Millbrook High needed it to improve the demographics.