New Wake County Board of Education plans jeopardize magnet school grants

Here’s a topic that hasn’t received the attention it deserves in the ongoing battle over the future of the Wake County public school system: magnet schools. This is surprising since, in many ways, the accomplishments and prevalence of Wake County’s magnet schools have been synonymous with the system’s national reputation as a beacon of progress and success.

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Conservative Art Pope, the primary funder of organizations like the John Locke Foundation and the Civitas Institute, tells the News & Observer that he doesn’t think it helps the public debate for N.C. Policy Watch to be calling the new members of the Wake County Board of Education racists. Pope has apparently not been reading N.C. Policy Watch very closely.

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