Wake County Segregationists Become Most Visible Tea Partiers
The Atlantic Wire has a round-up of reactions to the WaPo news piece that has put Wake County on the map in ways that are an embarrassment to most Wake Countians:
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Have Tea Party conservatives made their first major statement on how public schools should operate? The Washington Post's Stephanie McCrummen suggests they have. She takes us to North Carolina's Wake County, where a "majority-Republican school board backed by national tea party conservatives" abolished long-standing policies designed to promote school integration, which the majority criticized as social engineering.
Some background is helpful: In the 1970s, officials in Raleigh--North Carolina's state capital--knit the city and its suburbs together into one vast Wake Country School District so that children in