WaPo Paints N.C. Conservatives As Opposed to ‘School Integration’ for Ending Busing
Today's Washington Post all but painted Tea Party conservatives in the Tar Heel State as racists opposed to racial integration and diversity in Raleigh-area schools. In truth the Wake County, North Carolina, school board is simply moving to reverse decades of busing that shuttled some students to schools farther away from their homes in an effort to artificially engineer the socioeconomic and racial diversity of the county's individual schools. “In N.C., a new battle on school integration,” the Post headlined staffer Stephanie McCrummen's story on today's A-section front page. “With tea party's backing, GOP school board moves to dismantle widely praised diversity policy,” added the subheader. read more
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WaPo Paints N.C. Conservatives As Opposed to ‘School Integration’ for Ending Busing
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on January 12, 2011. Filed under