The Wake County school board majority's abandonment of the socioeconomic diversity policy has now received the national scorn of Marian Wright Edelman, president of the liberal Children's Defense Fund.

In a blog post Friday, Edelman cites the actions in Wake and in New Hanover County schools as signs of the nation's "dangerous drift back toward segregated schools." She said the actions of both school districts are part of a "very disturbing trend across the country."