The anger among supporers of the diversity policy over Tuesday's school board election results is hard not to notice.

Check this post on the liberal Stinging Nettle blog called "Forward to 1948!"

"Tuesday the voters of Wake County decided to urinate all over Harold Webb's legacy and soundly rejected socioeconomic diversity as a goal in education," according to the blog. "In so doing, they handed the reins of the best school system in North Carolina over to the anti-busing, anti-magnet school, anti-diversity, anti-year round, anti-sex ed, anti-science, anti-arts, anti-tax right wing. Let's hear it for Topeka!"

A new television ad appearing on WRAL is attacking three of the school board candidates, warning that backing neighborhood schools will lead to higher property taxes.

The ad, from a group called Wake Citizens for Good Government, attacks three of the four candidates backed by the Wake Schools Community Alliance: Chris Malone, Deborah Prickett and Debra Goldman. But it doesn't go after John Tedesco, who is also backed by the WSCA but isn't facing a Democratic Party endorsed opponent.

Here's the text of the ad:

SEE UPDATE AT END OF POST ON WHO'S BEHIND THE AD

Called2Action, a conservative Christian group, has announced its school board candidate endorsements.

The group says it's backing Chris Malone in District 1, John Tedesco in District 2, Deborah Prickett in District 7 and Debra Goldman in District 9. But will Called2Action's support scare off some voters as liberal groups will likely try to take shots at the endorsements?

There wasn't much of a District 7 school board candidate debate on Monday's Bill LuMaye show on WPTF.

Only Deborah Prickett attended. LuMaye told listeners that Karen Simon declined to participate.

Click here to listen to Prickett's interview.

Thursday's four-way District 2 forum was a lot more heated. Click here and here to listen.

Most of the school board candidates have filed their final pre-election campaign reports.

It's too early to get a definitive read on the finance situation because reports aren't in yet from most of the opposition candidates or from the Wake Schools Community Alliance or Take Wake Schools Back.

But the filed reports, which must be postmarked by today, show the candidates most supportive of school board policies are getting their money.

UPDATE

Rakestraw and Simon are missing their PAC contribution pages in their latest reports.

The Wake Schools Community Alliance has weighed in with campaign mailers for all for its endorsed school board candidates.

Each mailer mentions that only 54 percent of Wake's low-income students are graduating from high school and that the district didn't make Adequate Yearly progress under No Child Left Behind in 2008-09. (Wake is one of the state's 60 districts that are in school improvement status for not meeting NCLB for at least two years in a row.)

But most of the mailers also mention material specific to that individual district.

We're reaching what could be a case of put up or shut up about year-round schools.

As noted in today's article, voters can choose between a slate of school board candidates who support or oppose the current practice of assigning students to year-round schools. A sweep by critics could lead to more reversed conversions and even a return to having mostly voluntary applications into year-round schools.

But for those who claim that parents and voters accept year-round schools as they are, the election results could prove their case as well.

The non-WSCA school board candidates are complaining about the alleged tactics of their opponents.

Karen Simon's campaign says that their campaign signs on Lumley Road in Brier Creek were removed while those for Deborah Prickett remained. it's being called a case of "unsportsmanlike behavior."

Last week, Democratic political consultant Perry Woods said four Debra Goldman signs were put in County Commissioner Stan Norwalk's front yard while he was hosting an event for candidate Lois Nixon.

Deborah Prickett and Karen Simon pretty much took 180s from each other during this morning's District 7 Wake school board candidate forum.

Prickett repeatedly found ways to mention her support for neighborhood schools as a way to promote stability and improve academic performance. LIke the other WSCA-backed candidates, Prickett repeatedly pointed to Wake's 54.6 percent graduation rate for low-income students to attack the diversity policy.

"There is overwhelming evidence that the diversity policy isn’t working in Wake," Prickett said. "Too many poor and minority students are not graduating."

You've got a chance this morning to see District 7 school board candidates Deborah Prickett and Karen Simon go head to head.

Today's forum, sponsored by the Wake Education Partnership and the chambers of commerce or Raleigh and Morrisville, will take place at 8 a.m. It will be held at the Morrisville Chamber of Commerce, 260 Town Hall Dr.

If you can't make it to Morrisville, NBC 17 is supposed to stream the forum live. The Partnership will eventually post the forum on its web site.

The forum is still taking place even though a complaint was filed Friday over the Wake Education Partnership's recent electronic newsletter on the board races.