Perspective: A new story of school segregation in North Carolina, as a private white-flight academy turns charter
Teachers rally in Raleigh, N.C., last May. By Valerie Strauss Valerie Strauss Reporter covering education, foreign affairs Email Bio Follow Reporter March 11 at 12:41 PM Last summer, the North Carolina legislature passed legislation permitting four towns with mostly white populations to create their own charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated.
Pierce was tapped as a “Local African American Hero” by Halifax County Schools in 2013 and received the MLK Dream Keeper award from the Roanoke Valley Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 2018. He was named one of his district’s Most Outstanding Beginning Teachers in 2018. If you read the charter application that Hobgood submitted to state officials, you might be inclined to think that the very purpose for the school’s existence is to lift children out of poverty by offering them a better education.
Rather, it is for parents of students who already attend the school to be able to keep going there without paying tuition. In addition, responses to recent questions that are posted on the parent site include the statement: “No current law forces any diversity whether it be by age, sex, race, creed.” The question isn’t posted, so you’ll have to infer what it was.
Rodney Pierce teaches eighth-grade grade social students as well as civics and economics in Halifax County. An avid local historian, he was recently named the 2019 North Carolina Council for Social Studies Teacher of the Year. Thorne’s bill passed the House in February 1969 and the Senate in March, with some impassioned pleas from late Senator Julian Allsbrook of Roanoke Rapids. The Justice Department filed suit against the district in June 1969 and the case was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs in June 1972 .
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