Wake County's Gang of Five: 19th Century Pols in a 21st Century Community
Not only have these teabaggers on the school board destroyed the most successful school integration program in the nation, but now they are going after the books. All the books. Read this great feature from IndyWeek:
About Deborah Westmoreland. She called me a couple of weeks ago to ask if I knew that the Wake school board was laying off 40 librarians — media specialists these days — as of the end of the 2009-10 school year. I did not know that. I remembered Deborah from her involvement in the first Sparkcon a few years ago. Since then, she'd taken a job with the Wake schools as media specialist at Moore Square Magnet Middle School. Now, she was one of those being laid off.
Her call prompted me to write a column in the Indy this week about two related subjects. One is
