Tea Party-Backed School Board Reinstitutes Segregation - Abolishes Integration Policy

[Emit]

Wake County, North Carolina Republicans swept onto the Raleigh school board with the backing of the Tea Party are abolishing the busing of minority students from poor neighborhoods into better-funded school districts.

The new school board has won applause from parents who blame the old policy - which sought to avoid high-poverty, racially isolated schools - for an array of problems in the district and who say that promoting diversity is no longer a proper or necessary goal for public schools. "This is Raleigh in 2010, not Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s - my life is integrated," said John Tedesco, a new board member. "We need new paradigms."...

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The NAACP has filed a lawsuit. Wake County's school superintendent has resigned in protest. His expected replacement is a Tea Party activist and retired general who lists himself as a fan of Glenn Beck on his Facebook page.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/01/north-carolina-tea-party-backed-school.html

[napi21]

1. OH SHIT! Are we going to see the Feds enforcing integration

there like we did in Alabama so long ago? AFAIK this law is always enforced by the Feds.

[madrchsod]

2. they can kiss their federal funds good bye and....

a federal lawsuit

[WhiteTara]

3. isn't there some Federal law that over rides

this madness?

[intheflow]

4. We can thank the Koch Brothers for this.

Fulfilling Father’s Campaign To Segregate Public Schools, Koch Groups End Successful Integration Program In NC (Think Progress)

[Generic Brad]

5. The same thing is being done in St Paul

It is being sold as a budget cutting measure designed to guarantee student success. How segregation and economic disparity fosters student success is beyond me.

The school board is not filled with Tea Party folks, but they have to deal with massive budget cuts caused by 8 years of Tim Pawlenty's mismanagement. Education has been under continuous assault from our state Republicans.

[Kurovski]

6. Enough "The Tea Party is not racist" crapola.

They are. Pass it on.

[Hugabear]

7. Exactly my thought.

They can say what they want, tote out as many 'tokens' as they want, but their actions don't lie.