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School Board in Turmoil » Wake County School Board member Keith Sutton listens as member Deborah Prickett proposes a resolution opposing mandatory year-round school assignments beginning with the 2010-11 school year during a Wake County School Board meeting.

Wake County School Board member Keith Sutton listens as member Deborah Prickett proposes a resolution opposing mandatory year-round school assignments beginning with the 2010-11 school year during a Wake County School Board meeting.

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.
Wake County schools diversity policy supporters Amy Lee, left, and Susan Evans react as an opposition supporter speaks during the public comment period of a Wake County School Board meeting.

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