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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Schools Matter: North Carolina Republicans Don't Need No Stinkin' Accrediting Agency

Schools Matter: North Carolina Republicans Don't Need No Stinkin' Accrediting Agency

North Carolina Republicans Don't Need No Stinkin' Accrediting Agency

The Koch heads in the North Carolina Legislature are pushing on with their plan to strip AdvanceED of its accrediting powers in the state of North Carolina. Why? Because AdvancED did not look kindly on the anti-democratic and socially unjust and educationally disruptive and pedagogically unsound and ideologically based re-segregation of Wake County Schools. So Teabagger sponsors, Blackwell and Holloway, along with co-sponsors, Avila; Cook; Dollar; and Stam, have offered this legislative masterpiece, Edition 1 [HTML], of John Birch Society problem-solving, and so we must wait to see if the North Carolina will be dragged further back into the Jim Crow era by the social antiquarians who now control government in NC.

Commentary from the Charlotte Observer:
Remember comedian Stephen Colbert's lampooning in January of the Wake County school board and its dismantling of the system's popular socioeconomic diversity school assignment plan?

That ridicule wasn't enough for some N.C. lawmakers. They're offering "help" to the Wake school