New Ed Next Podcast: Voters Choose Neighborhood Schools over Socioeconomic Diversity



By Education Next 10/29/2009

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Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about Wake County, North Carolina, where voters earlier this month elected new school board members who have pledged to undo the county’s controversial policy of assigning students to schools based on income (to achieve diversity).

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