The East CAC is in the news again as Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker seeks experts to challenge the Wake County School Board’s proposed school assignments.
With an eye toward a potential lawsuit, Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker is recruiting Raleigh community leaders and legal experts to scrutinize how students get assigned to schools now that the Wake County school board has eliminated assignments based on socioeconomic diversity.
Meeker, who is married to Wake school board member Anne McLaurin, said legal action could follow, if it appears that the school board’s yet-to-be-released student assignment plan violates the state constitutional rights to a sound education.
“As mayor, this is very disconcerting,” Meeker said. “It’s already hurt Wake County’s reputation.”
Meeker told members of the East Raleigh Citizens Advisory Committee on Monday that he’s trying to enlist experts to see if the school board’s new student assignment plan violates state constitutional law. The new board hopes to approve by the end of next year a new plan that would divide Wake into different zones with students going to schools in their community.
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