WakeUP Wake County says the Wake County school system's future "brightens" now that the school board is changing the student assignment plan.
In an email update today, WakeUP Wake says the group is "excited that Wake County will significantly revise the current 'choice' plan, that has already proven to decrease economic diversity in elementary schools."
WakeUP Wake also "thanks" the members of the Great Schools in Wake Coalition "for their persistence over the past two years." Great Schools is a project of WakeUP Wake, an officially non-partisan progressive group.
Here's the section of their email message about the school board majority passing the student assignment directive:
School Board Passes Directive — Wake County Schools' Future Brightens!
Last week, the Wake County school board directed staff to begin developing a new student assignment plan for the 2013-2014 school year.
We are excited that Wake County will significantly revise the current "choice" plan, that has already proven to decrease economic diversity in elementary schools. Many thanks to the members of Great Schools in Wake for their persistence over the past two years. Their dedication has been an overwhelming asset in making sure Wake County Schools are run with integrity and for the success of students.
Under this directive, staff will take lessons learned from previous assignment plans and the current choice plan and use those lessons to develop an effective and sustainable method for assigning students to the appropriate school. The new plan is supposed to place high priority on student achievement, stability, and proximity.
Comments
WakeUp Wake and Great Schools in Wake are one and the same!
Tue, 07/03/2012 - 08:37 — woodstockWakeUp Wake and Great Schools in Wake are one and the same! What the hell?! Very incestuous. Ditto for the awards GSIW gave to their honored members Evans and Kushner. It is just so very disgustingly incestuous.
The very notion that replacing school choice with dictates and instability will "brighten" anything is just laughable. Anyone who falls for their inane rhetoric deserves what they get... and what they will get to kick things off is a failed bond referendum.
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Sat, 06/30/2012 - 11:49 — SideburnsMany thanks to the members of Great Schools in Wake for their persistence over the past two years.
I would like to thank myself for all my hard work. I'll be accepting an award from myself later and will ensure to thank myself once again.
So, do the citizens of Wake
Sat, 06/30/2012 - 11:13 — woodstockSo, do the citizens of Wake County really prefer mandates and being told where to go to school to choice? Not even Hill, Evans, Kushner, Martin and Sutton believe that. But they do not care, they do not serve their district constituents, they serve left-wing organizations like GSIW who want to use our children to further their social-engineering ideals.
Read Between The Lines...
Fri, 06/29/2012 - 16:03 — JanisTangoRead between the lines...it should say....
We are excited that Wake County will significantly reduce the choices that parents currently have that created a perceived threat to the ITB 'private' schools that we call magnets. We also want to make sure the realtors can continue to sell homes. We also want to continue to starve the schools outside of the beltline of resources and extras so we can continue to deny 75% of the magnet applications per year. The 'choice' plan allowed us to only deny 50% and that is unacceptable. We also want to make sure we have the authority to bus kids great distances so we don't get too many of the wrong type kids in our precious magnets. Many thanks to the members of Great Schools in Wake for their rioting and bad behaviour over the past two years. Their interruptions and refusal to look at the problems of WCPSS, has been an overwhelming asset in making sure Wake County Schools are run by the people that scream the loudest.
Under this directive, the staff will return to plan that we have already done and will create the same mistakes as before, all the while telling people it is in the name of student achievement. The new plan will place the highest priority on racial balancing and busing. We will have healthy schools because that data is easier to look at than what it's doing to the indivdual child. We will pat ourselves on the back and continue to apply for awards so we can create the perception of caring about ALL kids and their education!