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  • NAACP says neighborhood schools a 'public emergency'

    06/17/2010 4:37:10 AM PDT · by NCjim · 67 replies · 710+ views
    WRAL ^ | June 16, 2010
    Raleigh, N.C. — The state NAACP says the Wake County Board of Education's move away from busing students to help balance socio-economic diversity in the school system is a "public emergency" and that the group won't stop fighting the board's "morally wrong" decision to move toward community-based schools. "If it is necessary that we be locked up to resist policies that will lock down our children in re-segregated, high-poverty and unconstitutional schools, so be it," state chapter President Rev. William Barber said at a news conference Wednesday. Barber and three others were arrested Tuesday evening and charged with second-degree trespassing...