Will Wake turn back the clock?
North Carolina’s capital county flirts with re-segregating its award winning school system
Voters in Wake County will head to the ballot box next Tuesday in what figures to be one of the more important “off year” elections in some time. At-stake: the composition of the county school board and whether Wake’s nationally acclaimed school system (the nation’s 23rd largest) will stay the course and retain its system of economic diversity or retreat back into the mid-20th Century model of separate and supposedly equal schools. Given Wake’s prominence on the national scene, the results of the election are sure to reverberate far and wide for some time.
