Dornan: Teacher retention, better funding are challenges for new neighborhood schools

Classes resume Wednesday for most of North Carolina’s public schools. And in Wake County, the new year begins with as much if not more tension than the previous school year.

The district will be working with $20-million less. The organization that accredits Wake County high schools will be looking into the NAACP’s claims that the end of the student diversity policy will lead to re-segregation.

John Dornan, director of the Public School Forum of NC, says the school board majority will also be hard pressed to convince critics that the move to neighborhood schools will not lead to more low-wealth schools . But he notes Wake has a lot it could learn from the state’s other urban school districts.

Dornan is among our guests this weekend on “News & Views.” For a preview of his interview with Chris Fitzsimon, please click below:

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