Bob Geary writes for the Independent Weekly, a publication with which I've had a love/hate relationship since their launch in Durham back in '82 or '83. That was also my first year out of college and I had an amazing time in Durham getting to know a progressive/radical community with a very deep bench.
Bob does some nice work and I'll try to update this post as regularly as I can. You can check IndyWeek for his regional news coverage and his Citizen blog for posts about the big town of Raleighwood.
Bob Geary on Wake County School Board Issues
From IndyWeek News in 2010:
Wake County politics: It's complicated
Diversity takes a backseat in Wake schools: Rich kid, poor kid
Why did the new majority hire its own attorney, Tom Farr?
From the Citizen blog in 2010:
Wake schools: It’s not over; the battle is just beginning
Wake school board: the usual 5-4 for “community assignment zones”
School board on the brink; Debra Goldman has the comm
Del Burns resigns as Wake schools leader — in protest
HK on J is coming Feb. 13 — it's not a march, it's a movement worth joining
NAACP calls Sunday forum on threat to Wake schools; WakeUP sets coalition
Wake school board votes 5-4 to end year-round assignments — somehow
It's Tuesday, 5:40 pm — do you know where your school board is?
From IndyWeek News in 2009:
Conservative Wake school board members discover change is tougher
than it looks: A reality check
The Wake school board's conservative bloc grabs power:
Doesn't play well with others
Tedesco: No Wake schools coup planned—yet
From the Citizen blog in 2009:
Students launch online petition to preserve magnet schools in Wake
Tedesco wins, conservative majority now in control of Wake schools
Truitt drops out, warns against resegregation of schools in Wake
Truitt will drop out of District 2 race tomorrow, cementing
"neighborhood schools" majority
Truitt versus Tedesco: It matters.
Now that the rabid-right Republicans run the Wake schools,
will they wreck them?
Wake schools to come apart? Will the new school board fire Del Burns?
Related Raleighwood, NC Coverage: Wake Co. School Board
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