This Sounds Familiar: Tea Party Pushes "Separate But Equal" NC Schools
Activists around North Carolina honored Martin Luther King Jr. day yesterday by shouting, "Forward together - not one step back," trying to stop the re-segregation of Wake County's schools.
Wake County's made headlines in recent months for undoing its heralded student assignment policy, which ensures each school is socio-economically diverse, making sure low-income students aren't concentrated in a few schools. Tea Party leaders have been behind the push to stop busing and move to a neighborhood model of school assignment, effectively segregating the county's schools.
The NAACP has been behind much of the push to get Wake County's school board to keep the district's integrated schools alive. In September of last year, they filed a federal civil right complaint against Wake County
