Schools Matter: Wake County Lame Duck Segregationists Hustle to Approve Anti-Diversity Plan

Schools Matter: Wake County Lame Duck Segregationists Hustle to Approve Anti-Diversity Plan:

Wake County Lame Duck Segregationists Hustle to Approve Anti-Diversity Plan

by Jim Horn

Despite an election that has changed the face of the Tea Party controlled school board, and despite public questions and appeals to go slow, the defeated school board chair, Ron Margiotta, has put the new anti-diversity plan on next Tuesday's school board agenda.

Mobilize the stop the premature vote that defies the wishes of Wake County voters. From News Observer Oct. 13:

RALEIGH The three newly elected Democratic school board members, echoing many who spoke at a public hearing today, said Tuesday is too early for a final vote on Wake County schools’ sweeping new student assignment plan -- even if the delay puts off the plan for a school year.

District 8 representative-elect Susan Evans, who defeated chairman Ron Margiotta in Tuesday’s