neighborhood schools

Pat Nolan makes a good point in his column:

I've largely stayed out of this whole segregation v. neighborhood schools argument going on in the MNPS because I don't have a concrete opinion either way...I can see both sides.

Jeff Woods is calling out the white liberal community for their silence:

The new school zoning lines were drawn to make the district run more economically by filling up schools that now have too few students and closing others. At least that's what the plan's advocates have been insisting.

Janell Ross reports on the still hot controversy over the school board member Karen Y.

District 23's Emily Evans wades into the redistricting task force mess:

According to the NashPo blog, School Board Member Karen Johnson seemingly cast the deciding vote (5-4) to pass the rezoning plan that establishes post-desegregation-era neighborhood schools without any mechanism for preventing the resegregation of Nashville public sc

Some are afraid that the push to rezone Metro schools to create neighborhood schools will end the return of the white family to Nashville’s urban core:

According to Jeff Woods, "Chamber of Commerce types" lobbied the School Board and the Re-districting Task Force to exempt Germantown, Hope Gardens, Salemtown, and Downtown from the MNPS redistricting plan because allegedly white parents here do not want to send their kids to school with black kids.

Jeff Woods reports that predominately white “urban pioneers” are lobbying to be exempted from a plan to rezone Metro schools into neighborhood schools.

The City Paper picked up the story on the school re-zoning letter signed by the North End/Downtown association presidents.