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Schools Matter: Hope Rising to Challenge Despair in Wake County

Schools Matter: Hope Rising to Challenge Despair in Wake County

Hope Rising to Challenge Despair in Wake County

Wake County School Board's Gang of 5 has been working overtime since last year's local election to undo one of the most successful socioeconomic integration plans in the nation. John Tedesco has been the diminuitive driver of the anti-diversity Koch-funded forces who, until last week, seemed about to succeed in putting in place a policy assuring the return to segregated schooling. Now it seems as if the coalition of resegregationists has cracked, and the entire house is cards is about to come tumbling down.

Meanwhile, there are new levels of interest nationwide in socioeconomic integration (except in the U. S.