SUTTON SAYS WAKE SCHOOL BOARD WILL REVISIT DIVERSITY POLICY – the Cash Roc

The vice chairman of the Wake County Board of Education says “there will be an effort by this board…” to revisit Policy 6200, the long held school board policy that established socioeconomic student diversity as an important tool in the school system, before the previous conservative-led Wake school board gutted it in favor of neighborhood schools. (More)

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Butterfield to Highlight Diversity and Education in the District

 

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For Release:  Immediate     Date:  February 16, 2012

Contact: Kezmiché "Kim" Atterbury  Phone:  (202) 225.3101                                                    Mobile: (202) 465.5125

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Butterfield to Highlight Diversity and Education in the District

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) will make several stops next week in North Carolina’s First Congressional District to discuss diversity, highlight education efforts, and celebrate Black History Month.

On Monday, Butterfield will participate in a forum sponsored by the Association of Mexicans in North Carolina (AMEXCAN), with twenty Latino leaders to discuss education, healthcare, economic development, and immigration issues affecting the state’s Latino community. 

On Wednesday and Thursday, Butterfield will visit several schools.  While there, he will meet with Teach For America (TFA) educators and Eastern North Carolina TFA Executive Director Robyn Schryer Fehrman.  The Congressman will also instruct students in a short lesson in African-American history in recognition of Black History Month.

Butterfield will cap his tour with a book delivery to Greene County Middle School, whose library was destroyed by the tornados that ravaged the state last April.  The books were donated through the Library of Congress Surplus Books Program.  Since 2008, the program has collected thousands of books for eligible organizations and institutions.

 

WHAT: Butterfield Highlights Education, Diversity, and Black History Month in the District

WHEN & WHERE: Monday, February 20

                                  9:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.                    Latino Listening Session

                                                                                East Carolina Heart Institute Conference

                                                                                115 Heart Drive

                                                                                Greeneville, North Carolina 27834

 

                                      Wednesday, February 22

                                      10:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m.              Teach for America Classroom Visit

                                                                                                Plymouth High School

                                                                                                800 East Main Street

                                                                                                Plymouth, North Carolina

 

                                     11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.             Washington County Government Services Tour

                                                                                                9500 Highway 94 North

                                Creswell, North Carolina 27928

 

     Thursday, February 23

                                      10:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m.              Teach For American Classroom Visit

                                                                                                Northampton West STEM High School

                                                                                                152 Hurricane Drive

                Gaston, North Carolina 27832

 

                                       1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.               Teach For America Classroom Visit

                                                                                Bertie STEM High School

                                                                                                715 US Highway 13 North

                                                                                                Windsor, North Carolina 27983

 

      3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.                Northampton Memorial Library Visit

                                                                                                207 West Jefferson Street

                                                                                                Jackson, North Carolina 27845

 

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RALEIGH, N.C. –Minority students outnumber minority teachers three to one in Wake County, so Superintendent Tony Tata has asked the NAACP to help find a solution to fix the issue. (Read more)

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In regards to color being an issue, if there is little to none representation of people of color then it should be considered. Just like there are many boards where there is no female voice so therefore during election time and/or appointment time for me I look at such if and only if I feel that these persons will do a good job. When it comes to representation on any board diversity ie: black, white, male, female and age should all be taken into consideration. Curmilus Dancy II – The Political Agitator

NAACP’s Response to Developments to the Wake County Title VI Complaint

For Immediate Release

March 11, 2011

For More Information: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137

Amina Turner, Executive Director, 919-682-4700

RESPONSE TO THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WAKE COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM 

TITLE VI COMPLAINT

The Wake County Title VI complaint is an ongoing investigation requiring a full vetting. After consultation with our attorneys the North Carolina NAACP has taken the following positions regarding recent developments with the Wake County School case.

The NC NAACP believes the USDA’s position regarding the use of Free and Reduced Lunch (FRL) data in school assignment is a misinterpretation of the law and of how data is being used as it pertains to the socioeconomic diversity criteria in Wake County’s former student assignment policy. Wake County uses FRL data in an aggregate form to assess the overall percentage of economically disadvantaged students in student assignment nodes. No student is individually identifiable by this aggregated data; therefore, our attorneys believe that this use does not violate the privacy rights of any student. USDA’s limited interpretation of how FRL data can be used impacts over 70 districts across the country that incorporate this information in assignment plans to promote socioeconomic diversity in schools. We will continue to investigate all available options to engage the USDA on this matter.

Wake County school officials have claimed they do not have records indicating how many students were moved under the socioeconomic diversity student assignment plan. We are currently analyzing the reassignment data provided by the school district and have a number of questions regarding how it is collected, collated, and presented, particularly as it relates to racial, socioeconomic, and performance demographics within nodes and at individual schools.

The opening of Walnut Creek Elementary School this fall epitomizes the direction in which Wake County Schools are moving as they drop the student assignment plan based on socioeconomic diversity. This new school is expected to open with 81% of its students eligible for Free or Reduced Lunch, 53% of students performing below grade level, and nearly 100% minority students. Our positions on education are rooted in constitutional law which still says segregation and discrimination are illegal; the lessons of history that tell us segregation and resegregation are wrong; and the findings of sound research conclusively and overwhelmingly say high poverty, racially identifiable, resegregated schools are the antithesis of student achievement and deny children a high quality, constitutional, diverse, well-funded public education.

Representatives from OCR will be visiting Wake County next week on Wednesday to continue their investigation into the Title VI complaint. The NAACP looks forward to engaging with OCR investigators at that time on these and other issues that pertain to the Title VI complaint.

Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization whose mission is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. For more information, call the StateOffice at 866-626-2227 or e-mail us at execdirnaacpnc@gmail.com.  # # #

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Cash Michaels is hammering the Wake County school board for not planning ahead of time for the financial costs of high-poverty neighborhoods schools while also warning that the budget cuts in Charlotte could be a sign of things to come locally. (Read more)

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Raleigh, N.C. — School district leaders in Wake County are turning over hundreds of documents to federal investigators in response to a charge that a controversial new student assignment policy will create unequal, high-poverty schools, but some requested data was missing. (Read more)

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Former President Bill Clinton has become the highest-profile figure to wade into the controversy involving the future of Wake County’s public schools.

Clinton chose the opening of an exhibit in his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark. on one of the nation’s most dramatic school integration events to criticize Wake County’s change in direction on keeping schools’ populations balanced by students’ socioeconomic backgrounds. (Read more)

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The next Wake schools superintendent repeatedly told leaders of the African-American community something they wanted to hear Saturday: that he values diversity.

Anthony J. Tata declined, though, to say that he would ensure that Wake’s schools have diverse student bodies, nor did he dispel suspicions among some that he been handpicked by the school board’s five-member Republican majority to help resegregate the school system. (Read more)

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Wake school board’s move will delay big changes – Source: News & Observer

RALEIGH — With the Wake County school board now operating with no majority bloc, massive changes in the way students are assigned to schools are unlikely to occur for nearly two more years.

That’s the only certainty that emerged Wednesday, the day after board Vice Chairwoman Debra Goldman split from the panel’s Republican majority by joining Democrats to kill a plan that would have divided Wake into 16 community school zones. That blueprint had been in preparation for months. Goldman said Wednesday that taking more time to listen to a broad range of ideas and people will make for a better plan than the one that had been shepherded by Republican board member John Tedesco. (Read more)

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Walter Williams: Focus on school diversity devastating blacks – Source: Greenville Reflector

The white liberal’s agenda, coupled with that of black race hustlers, has had and continues to have a devastating impact on ordinary black people. Perhaps the most debilitating aspect of this liberal malevolence is in the area of education. (Read more)

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50 years later, man recalls entering Raleigh’s all-white schools – Source: WRAL

Raleigh, N.C. — In 1960, a local couple made history by enrolling their 7-year old son in Raleigh’s all-white Murphey Elementary School, integrating the city’s public school system. The boy would later grow up in a world of triumph and turmoil.

In September 1960, Bill Campbell began second grade at Murphey Elementary, becoming the first black student in Raleigh’s all-white school system. (Read more)

Note: So sad these ignant comments about how Campbell’s career ended. The point is his education however he like countless others black, brown white and others who end up doing ignant mess but it does not take away from their education. But this is what happens when ignant racist folks don’t respond to the issue. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

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A larger number of smaller zones would create more racially and economically polarized districts, while larger zones would mean fewer students could attend a school close to home, according to a News & Observer analysis of new demographic data. (Source: News & Observer)

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RALEIGH — A powerful accreditation group is threatening to strip its credentials from Wake County’s high schools unless the school board majority can justify all the major decisions they’ve made since December.

The sweeping review that will be conducted in early fall by Advancing Excellence in Education Worldwide, or AdvancED was triggered by a March complaint filed by the state NAACP and is one of less than a handful conducted each year by the accreditation group based in suburban Atlanta. (Source: News & Observer)

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