{"id":10538,"date":"2012-03-08T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=10538"},"modified":"2012-03-08T09:32:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:32:07","slug":"data-show-deep-economic-divide-in-schools-from-east-to-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2012\/03\/08\/data-show-deep-economic-divide-in-schools-from-east-to-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Show Deep Economic Divide in Schools from East to West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mapping of new Wake schools data by the Record shows a clear trend of schools becoming more high-poverty moving from west to east across the county.<\/p>\n<p>The map was created using data released at Tuesday&#8217;s Board of Education meeting. The data projects the percentage of students who will receive free-and-reduced lunch at each school next year.<\/p>\n<p>Schools East of downtown Raleigh are almost exclusively high-poverty schools. Schools with more than 50 percent F&amp;R students, represented by the red dots, are generally acknowledged to be more prone to problems and low test scores.<\/p>\n<p>Moving west across the map, schools become progressively wealthier.<\/p>\n<p><strong><center>Free-and-Reduced Lunch Program<\/strong><\/center><br \/>\nGreen = Fewer than 25 percent F&#038;R<br \/>\nYellow = 25-50 percent<br \/>\nRed = 50-75 percent of students using F&#038;R<br \/>\nPurple = 75 percent or more<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"600px\" height=\"400px\" scrolling=\"no\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?viz=MAP&#038;q=select+col1+from+3161247+&#038;h=false&#038;lat=35.77325759103728&#038;lng=-78.47308386230475&#038;z=9&#038;t=1&#038;l=col1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new controlled-choice assignment plan, which is set to take effect in the 2012-13 school year, clearly notes that its purpose is not to reduce or balance the current F&amp;R demographics.<\/p>\n<p>According to the plan, the percentages and distribution will likely remain the same as the current school year.<\/p>\n<p>The new assignment plan was passed by the former Republican majority in November. A new Democratic majority is implementing the plan, despite some new board members having expressed serious doubts about its fidelity.<\/p>\n<p><em>Share your comments: Should Wake School officials try to correct this disparity?<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mapping conducted by the Record shows that nearly all schools to the East of downtown Raleigh are high-poverty schools. It further shows a clear trend of mid-range schools in the middle and wealthier schools to the west. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24024,"featured_media":10540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,23,55],"tags":[505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}