Thursday, September 16, 2010

Raleigh Chamber requests new school assignment plan

Via the News and Observer we read:

"BY THOMAS GOLDSMITH AND T. KEUNG HUI - STAFF WRITER
RALEIGH -- Massachusetts educational consultant Michael Alves, who studied Wake County's assignment system earlier this year, will develop an assignment plan based on student achievement, proximity, choice and stability at the request of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and the Wake Education Partnership, officials announced today.

The move can be seen as the nonprofits' response to the Wake County school board's developing 16-zone plan, which does not take diversity into consideration. The use of student achievement could mean that zones will be more diverse racially and economically because members of minority groups tend to score lower on standardized tests.

Alves is known for developing "controlled choice" plans, which typically have fewer zones than the number being developed by the school board"

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/09/16/684733/raleigh-chamber-requests-new-school.html#ixzz0zifiF85d

This is nothing less than intimidation from a different vector, this time by an outside "expert" claiming to know more about Wake County than the residents themselves! This one more example of the liberal's "I know better than you" attitude. We don't need someone from outside who doesn't know crap about our schools coming in and getting involved in something that is a local thing. More intimidation, more leftist dirty tricks masquerading as an impartial source. Pack your things and go the heck back up north, let us handle the mess created by people like you in the first place.

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