The state NAACP announced today that it had filed a federal Title VI complaint accusing the Wake County school system of racial discrimination over student assignment and disciplinary issues.

The civil rights complaint, filed late Friday afternoon, is based on three arguments. The first argument is that reassignments made this year by the new school board majority were intentionally discriminatory based on race.

The complaint is citing the reassignment of black students from Garner High to Southeast Raleigh High and of white students from Stough Elementary to Lacy Elementary. Mark Dorosin of the UNC Center for Civil Rights says those moves were made with "discriminatory intent."

The girls bracket for the 2010 GlaxoSmithKline Holiday Invitational has been set.

Your first-round match-ups will be: Enloe vs. Northern Durham, Southeast Raleigh vs. Cary Christian, Millbrook vs. Clayton, Western Harnett vs. Middle Creek.

D.Clay Best and Tim Stevens can't agree on who will win three games between teams was Wake County and Johnston County.

D.Clay Best and Tim Stevens can't agree on who will win three games matching teams from Wake County against teams from Johnston County.

East Chapel Hill 20, Northwood 18: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/20/638609/northwood-at-east-chapel-hill.html

Triton 26, Smithfield-Selma 7: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/20/638622/triton-26-sss-7-082010.html

Cary 53, Broughton 26: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/20/638674/cary-53-broughton-20-082010.html

Millbrook 3, Garner 0: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/20/638714/millbrook-3-garner-0-082010.html

Holly Springs 28, SE Raleigh 27: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/21/638769/se-raleigh-holly-springs-082010.html

Wakefield 20, Green Hope 6: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/21/638790/wakefield-20-green-hope-6-082110.html

Fuquay-Varina 40, Knightdale 7: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/21/638807/fuquay-varina-40-knightdale-7.html

Clayton 33, Cardinal Gibbons 13: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/21/638975/clayton-33-cardinal-gibbons-13.html

Sean McLean, who did not compete this spring at his Southeast Raleigh High , won the New Balance Nationals 100-meter championships on Sunday in Greensboro at North Carolina A&T. The meet is the unofficial national high school championships.

The elimination of socioeconomic diversity in filling Wake County's magnet schools and year-round schools had immediate results this year.

As noted in today's article, the acceptance rates shot up for both magnet schools and year-round schools. You had 812 more people accepted into magnet schools as hundreds of seats that had previously been left vacant for diversity reasons were filled.

(There's a long list of links at the bottom of the post for numbers crunchers.)

CORRECTED BAD LINKS FOR THIS YEAR'S SCHOOL-BY-SCHOOL TOTALS

Wake County school administrators are going to take extra steps to notify the Garner High families who were reassigned at the last minute this year to Southeast Raleigh High.

This extra heads up emerged during Tuesday's committee of the whole discussion about student transfer requests. Board vice chairwoman Debra Goldman, who backed the reassignment of the Garner High students, acknowledged that the students didn't get "a lot of notice," which drew snorts from the crowd.

Goldman asked if there was any way the district could provide those families with transportation considering they might not have cars. You typically lose bus service if your transfer request is approved.

Was it fair to move some 100 Garner High School students to Southeast Raleigh High this fall without prior notice or a public hearing?

As noted in today's article, the way the Garner High students were moved for this fall still leaves a bad taste in some people's mouths. Unlike past practice, the moves were made without a public hearing for those families. It was also done on very short notice.

The moves were first publicly proposed by school board member John Tedesco on March 23 at a student assignment committee meeting. They were approved by the full board on April 6.

In his latest attack on the new Wake County school board majority, Chris Fitzsimon takes shot at them for Tuesday's student assignment changes.

In a Wednesday column, Fitzsimon, executive director of the liberal N.C. Policy Watch, points to decisions such as "sending some children of well-connected political donors back to Lacy Elementary and moving some students from Garner High to Southeast Raleigh with no notice or public hearing."