School Board in Turmoil » Wake County Board of Education member John Tedesco speaks to a gaggle of reporters following a public hearing at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School. Tedesco has become an outspoken public voice of the new Wake County School Board majority. The Tea Party-backed majority seeks to end socioeconomic diversity based school enrollment. Promising their constituents neighborhood schools, the new conservative majority voted in 2010 to disregard the socioeconomic factors to determine school assignments.