Jim Horn is calling the decision by the outgoing Wake County school board majority to reject mediation in favor of trials for protesters the "final act of small-minded bitterness by Wake's Gang of Five."

"After Wake County voters re-established sanity last month by voting out the resegregationist school board majority, the Gang of 5 met one last time behind closed doors to rescind a previous offer to mediate trespassing cases against citizens who publicly resisted the end to the socioeconomic diversity program earlier this year," Horn writes in a post Thursday for the liberal Schools Matter blog.

"If there could conceived be a more appropriate goodbye by these hateful bigots, I can't think of one," Horn adds.

Horn has been a constant critic of the old board majority for the past two years.

Here's more signs that life for Wake County Superintendent Tony Tata will be bumpier under the new Democratic school board majority.

In a post today on the liberal Schools Matter blog, Jim Horn points to Cash Michaels' article in The Carolinian about the crowding at Walnut Creek Elementary. Horn essentially calls for the new majority to get rid of Tata.

"We must wonder if the new sane school board majority will allow the incompetent and callous Tata to continue demolishing the reputation of Wake County Schools," Horn writes.

UPDATE

Click here to view the precis for the Walnut Creek capping vote, which includes eight schools the school board could choose from to send the overflow students to for the rest of the school year.

Jim Horn of the liberal Schools Matter blog is firing more barbs at the Wake County school board majority as he comment on a pair of bills in the state legislature.

In a blog post today, Horn writes that "the Koch-Heads in the North Carolina legislature" introduced the high school accreditation bill in case AdvancED pulls the plug "for the County's irresesponsible (sic) and mis-educative resegregation practices."

Horn adds that the "same geniuses that sponsored that bill" have also introduced a bill that would allow school board chairman Ron Margiotta to vote on all issues. Horn writes that the bill "would give the incompetent leader of the Gang of Five a vote, just in case Wake County citizens wake up and turn out one or more of these puppets of the John Birchers in the next school board election."

I thought I'd wrap up the week with various perspectives from the right and left on the AdvancED accreditation report on the Wake County school system.

"The bottom-line is Wake County schools remain accredited, albeit with an 'accreditation warning” status,'" writes Bob Luebke in a Thursday blog post for the conservative Civitas Institute. "The allegations of those  who filed claims were insufficient to revoke that status. Hopefully this episode will conclude in November when AdvancED officials return to WCPSS and issue a report."

"Advance Ed issued its long-awaited report yesterday that focused on wholesale policy changes aimed at re-segregating Wake County Schools," writes Jim Horn in a Thursday post on Schools Matter. "The Tea Party's Gang of Five school board majority did not fare well in a report."

Newsweek is questioning the strength of the ties that The Washington Post pointed to between the Wake County school board and the Tea Party.

In a blog post Friday, Ben Adler, national editor of Newsweek.com, says the connection that the Post pointed to in its front-page article on Jan. 12 were "tenuous" and "weak." Liberals have picked up on the Post article to accuse the Tea Party movement of trying to resegregate the Wake school system.

"But was the school board really 'backed by the national Tea Party'?," Adler writes. "No, the national Tea Party movement doesn’t normally get involved in races for school board."

Here's an example of how much the rhetoric is heating up heading into Tuesday's final Wake County school board vote on the community schools resolution.

In a blog post today on Schools Matter, Jim Horn compares tomorrow's Wake vote to scrap the socioeconomic diversity policy is compared with the incident that happened in 2007 in Jena, La., when nooses were hung in trees.