Schools will be in the spotlight in a pair of inter-city trips over the next two weeks.

This week, the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Chamber will host visitors from the Richmond area in Virginia. Next week, four Wake County school board members are part of a chamber-sponsored trip to the Greater D.C. area.

During next week's trip, the Raleigh group will visit Fairfax County Public Schools in northern Virginia, whose assignment system had been cited as a model that Wake can use for its community-based schools.