Nearly one year after the first protester was arrested for disrupting a Wake County school board meeting, there's no sign in sight of the situation being resolved.

As noted in today's article by Thomas Goldsmith, the nearly 30 people arrested at school board meetings between last March and August are waiting for disposition of their cases. While the Wake County District Attorney's Office says it's not unusual for misdemeanor cases to be on the docket after a year, prosecutors also don't want the arrests to turn into a show trial.

The issue is that the state NAACP, which has moved to combine all the arrests into one case, wants the issue argued in open court. They want to turn the arrests into a de-facto trial on the end of the diversity policy.

It looks like a group of self-described anarchists is willing to pay high school students to work this summer to "fight the move to re-segregate public schools in Wake County."

Action for Community in Raleigh (ACRe) is holding a Young People's Community Organizing and Leadership Institute whose goal is "to save our schools, end racism and stop re-segregation." Participants who complete at least 130 hours of training and fieldwork this summer will receive a $600 award.

According to the application, participants will conduct video interviews with parents, students, residents, teachers and civil rights leaders and will create a series of informational videos about the history of the school system "that will underscore what is at stake for our communities."

Courtesy of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, protesters have a permit to demonstrate outside today's Wake County school board meeting.

Elena Everett, community media director of the left-wing, Durham-based SCSJ, filed the paperwork for the permit to demonstrate outside the school admin building on Wake Forest Road. The group had also done the paperwork for the March 2 protest.

The SCSJ has been heavily involved in the efforts to oppose the school board majority's efforts to end busing for socioeconomic diversity. In addition to helping with the March 2 protest, the group provided legal aid for the lawsuit that was dismissed Friday.

CORRECTED TO SAY THEY HAD ALSO FILED PAPERWORK FOR MARCH 2 PROTEST

With the blessing of the state NAACP, around 20 people protested tonight at N.C. State University about what they called conservative businessman Art Pope's "privatization of public schools."

The protesters painted Pope as an enemy of public education. They bashed the Pope and his Pope Family Foundation as having put the new school board majority in power and for criticizing university programs such as multicultural studies.

"Pope, hands off our public education," chanted the protesters, consisting of N.C. State students, high school students and others who've joined the efforts to back Wake's diversity policy. "We don't want his resegregation."