Groton’s Burning Question of the Week: Should Groton Challenge The Racial Balance Law?

Superintendent Paul Kadri outlined away from their neighborhood schools to correct a racial imbalance at Catherine Kolnaski Magnet School and consolidate three middle schools to two.

The school board said it wants to preserve neighborhood schools, and directed Kadri to seek a waiver of the state’s racial balance rules.

But a lawyer for the .

Laura Anastasio, who handles racial imbalance cases for the state, said no such waiver exists, and Groton would be taken to court if it refused to comply.

What do you think the town should do?