Great Schools in Wake |

A Wise Investment

The Century Foundation’s Richard Kahlenberg tells us why research from a new generation of scholars comes to a powerful conclusion: “rather than representing a diversion of funds to ‘busing’ or transportation, spending that reduces socioeconomic school segregation...
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School Board in Action

As the “watchdog” for our community, GSIW members are a presence at all board meetings. We post our meeting minutes to this site, along with speeches made during public comment. Join us at a meeting. Speak during public comment…make sure your voice is heard! Wake...
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Raleigh Area Exceeds Expectations

The idea of attending a nearby school is very appealing to many families. However, the high levels of economic segregation found in our residential housing patterns make a neighborhood school model the story of separate and unequal. In a new report from the Brookings...
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Money Watch

Money Watch is your guide to questionable spending by the Wake County Board of Education. While a total 2012-13 budget of $1.4 billion seems like a lot of money, the money we are spending to educate nearly 150,000 students is far below comparable school districts. It is...
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Every Child, Our Child

Who We Are

A project of WakeUP Wake County, Great Schools in Wake Coalition (GSIW) is a community coalition of organizations, business leaders, parents and citizen advocates who are working to ensure educational excellence in the Wake County Public School System. GSIW’s mission is to provide accurate information to educate the public about policy initiatives that would impact the quality of education, foster well-informed discussions about critical education issues, and advocate for policies that improve public education in Wake County.

Featured Story

Can Public Education as We Know it Survive?

Americans are now confronted with two radically different visions of public education. Which vision ultimately prevails will go a long way toward determining the quality of the education available to future generations of children.

Read why “the private vision of public education is truly radical” in this insightful piece by Edward Fiske and Helen F. Ladd.

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