The new Wake County Commission majority wasted no time during its first meeting on December 6, 2010, taking strong actions to support the Wake School Board majority’s decision to end the diversity policy. The move to rescind the former resolution in favor of diversity in schools brought objections from supporters of the school system’s now discarded diversity policy:
Karen Rindge, executive director of WakeUp, a nonpartisan group that advocates for planned development, said in an interview that the board was advocating an expensive step. She said allowing some Wake schools to slip back into high concentrations of low income and minority students will cost the county by reducing its appeal to new businesses. It’s a loss the county can’t afford when revenue is already down, she said.
“The impact of resegregating schools, we know, is going to cost much more, ” she said. “How can they support an action that is going to result in higher costs? It’s mystifying.”
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