Victory in Raleigh (Wake County Public Schools)

[mmonk]

The "community school zones 16 zone plan" was scrapped. Republican Debra Goldman broke ranks with the new "tea party" majority!

From The N&O:


RALEIGH -- In a surprise reversal, the Wake County school board threw out its controversial, 16-zone student assignment plan Tuesday night on a motion by vice chairwoman Debra Goldman, who spent much of the meeting complaining about being shut out of the development of the plan.

Months of work by a Republican board majority elected last fall were cast aside in moments as Goldman, also one of those Republican newcomers, broke away and joined the former minority members, all Democrats, in a 5-3 vote to scrap the plan.



Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/06/723679/wake-schools-toss-out-zone-assignment.html#ixzz11aHrietF

I have been in contact with staff writer Thomas Goldsmith through all of this. See what happens when you fight back?