{"id":6065,"date":"2011-03-30T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2011-03-31T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:58:10","slug":"wake-school-board-no-racial-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2011\/03\/30\/wake-school-board-no-racial-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake School Board: No Racial Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Read the full text of the board\u2019s response below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Wake County School Board Wednesday released its latest response to a U.S. Department of Education investigation. This is the third response sent to the department since the investigation opened last fall.<\/p>\n<p>In the 42-page document, the board defended itself against charges of racial discrimination leveled by the state NAACP and other complainants. Supporters of the diversity policy alleged the board violated <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/docs\/hq43e4.html\">Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act<\/a> last year when it eliminated socioeconomic status as a factor in assigning students to schools.<\/p>\n<p>Low-income status is widely regarded as a proxy for racial and ethnic minorities. Low socioeconomic status is correlated with low performance in school.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to Department of Education queries, the board addressed \u201chow the student assignment policies and procedures were changed by the Board\u2019s decision to no longer consider [socioeconomic status] in student assignments, as well as its rationale for doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acting without \u201cracial animus,\u201d the document asserts, the board exercised its rightful power to determine which factors would be considered in the district\u2019s assignment policy.<\/p>\n<p>The board also avers that creating a diverse socioeconomic mix has not helped low-income students succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Although socioeconomic status has been dropped from student assignment, the board is otherwise implementing the multi-year assignment plan adopted before the new conservative board majority took office last year.<\/p>\n<p>In late spring Superintendent Tony Tata will present a revised assignment plan to the board for review and approval.<\/p>\n<div id=\"DV-viewer-75528-position-statement-3-22-11\" class=\"DV-container\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/viewer\/loader.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\n  DV.load('http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/75528-position-statement-3-22-11.js', {\n    width: 600,\n    height: 500,\n    sidebar: false,\n    container: \"#DV-viewer-75528-position-statement-3-22-11\"\n  });\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wake County School Board Wednesday released its latest response to a U.S. Department of Education investigation. This is the third response sent to the department since the investigation opened last fall. Read the response full text here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,49,55],"tags":[124,64,66,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065"}],"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\/24030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}