Save Diversity in Wake County Schools: Vote on Tuesday
From NPR:
Not long ago, I posted on the challenge North Carolina represents for President Obama who won the state in 2008 and badly needs it in his column again.
I mentioned a New Yorker piece by Jane Mayer on Art Pope, the conservative North Carolina businessman who has reshaped his state's politics more towards his GOP leanings by bankrolling a number of campaigns and think tanks.
A campaign he's put some emphasis on is a race for a seat on the Wake County school board. The county is home to the city of Raleigh.
The school board's bare GOP majority in 2009 discarded a policy that used family income to try