The Wake County Public School System's socioeconomic diversity policy is one of the most hotly debated public policy questions in the region.

The News & Observer has combined forces with our sister publication, The Charlotte Observer, to examine the results in Charlotte after the public school system in 2002 abandoned diversity considerations in assigning students. We are also looking at the pressures on Wake County, now the state's largest public school system, to change the policy that has been a factor in student assignments for several years.

Stories will appear in Sunday's N&O and the Observer. 

 Linda Williams