The fight against school re-segregation heats up in North Carolina

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/07/the-fight-against-school-re-segregation-heats-up-in-north-carolina.html

A thousand people marched through the streets of North Carolina's capital yesterday to protest the local school board's dismantling of a lauded student assignment policy based on economic diversity in favor of neighborhood schools -- a move many fear will lead to de facto re-segregation.

Nineteen protesters were arrested, all for nonviolent infractions and most for disrupting the the school board meeting that followed the march by holding hands, chanting and refusing to leave the podium.

The morning march through downtown Raleigh was led by the state NAACP with support from churches, student groups and civil rights organizations. Among those who spoke at the rally following the march was Tim Tyson, a Duke University historian and a board member of the Institute for Southern Studies, which publishes Facing South. snip

The controversy began last year when elections were held for four of nine school board seats in Wake County, the state's largest school district. Conservative candidates backed by Republican politicians including former state Rep. Art Pope -- a businessman and director of the right-wing group Americans for Prosperity -- won all of those races, joining an ally already on the board to create a new conservative majority.

[Lance_Boyle]

1. I can't believe the outpouring of support for busing.

Nobody liked busing in its heydey - NOBODY. The solution to this hubbub seems simple enough to me. Fund all schools in the system the same regardless of neighborhood. Busing is just not to be tolerated in this day and age. Who in their right mind supports putting a kid on a bus for an hour and a half when he could walk to the school down the block? Just make sure each school gets the same $ amount per student and make districting decisions rationally, not with some ill-conceived social engineering agenda.

[madrchsod]

2. chicago is doing the same thing.....