End of Consensus: Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments
Toby L. Parcel and Andrew J. Taylor
Abstract
One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship increasingly dominated local politics, including school board races. Against this backdrop, this book considers the ways diversity and neighborhood schools have influenced school assignment policies in Wake County, particularly during 2000–2012, when these policies became controversial locally and a topic of national attention.
Keywords: Wake County, North Carolina, school board races, local politics, neighborhood schools, metropolitan areas
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9781469622545 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: January 2016 | DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469622545.001.0001 |
