diversity policy

Unfortunately, their efforts failed to stop the resegregation train from leaving the station:

At the Wake school board where a historic vote to end busing for diversity in the county is expected, police removed around 20 people, many of whom appeared to be in their teens and early 20s, who refused to quiet down after they started loudly chanting in the hallway outside the board meeting room.

Dante Emmanuel Strobino, 28, of Raleigh was charged with second-degree trespassing, according to police reports, and transported to the Wake County Jail.
Police also charged Duncan Edward Hardee, 21, of Asheville, and Rakhee Shirish Vasthali, 20, of Fayetteville, with one count each of resisting, delaying or obstructing a law enforcement officer. They were transported to Wake County jail.

Setting the dials on their time machine back to the 1950's:

In a chaotic and conflict-filled meeting, Wake County's school board voted Tuesday night to kill the district's long-standing diversity policy and begin implementing neighborhood schools.

By a 5-4 vote, the board gave the first of two approvals needed to pass a resolution calling for abandoning busing for diversity, a policy that has won Wake national recognition and has been an important factor in student assignments for decades. The resolution calls for assigning students to schools in their communities.

Over the last few days, residents of Wake County, N.C. -- the site of a nationally watched battle over its school diversity policy -- have been receiving calls from phone pollsters asking for their views on the county's education future.

Yesterday, Facing South editor Sue Sturgis received one of the automated poll calls. But the question of who's behind it is a mystery: The number traces back to a line in Conyers, Georgia that doesn't pick up, and at no time during the "robo-poll" was information provided about who was doing the survey.

Such anonymous automated calls are likely in violation of North Carolina consumer protection laws, which require that the "name and contact information" of the person or group making the call be clearly identified.