Wake County board may consider creating attendance zones

From The Raleigh News & Observer: Key members of the Wake County (N.C.) school board say they're giving strong consideration to an student assignment approach called "controlled choice" that could replace its former diversity-based plan without creating high-poverty schools.The sharply divided board has been warring over the demise of busing for diversity as it is replaced by community schools. A controlled choice model would create a dozen or more attendance zones, each of which would reflect the makeup of Wake County - no rich zones or poor zones.

EARLIER...from The Raleigh News & Observer: In the midst of meeting disrupted by protests and some arrests, the chairman of the Wake County (N.C.) school board vowed that critics would not distract the board from a return to neighborhood schools. Board chairman Ron Margiotta says the board’s plan to assign students closer to their homes would not create schools full of poor or minority children. Those opposing the board’s plan fear it will lead to the resegregation of schools.