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Feds postpone next week's school board interviews

Submitted by KeungHui on 04/01/2011 - 09:00
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Wake County school board members have a month's reprieve before meeting with investigators from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

School board attorney Ann Majestic confirmed that next week's scheduled interviews with board members were postponed at OCR's request. She said they'll now come back to Raleigh during the first week in May.

OCR was in town in early March to interview Superintendent Tony Tata, other school staff members and members of the disbanded school board student assignment committee.

OCR, which is going through the latest Wake response letter, is investigating the complaint filed by the state NAACP.

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Fri, 04/01/2011 - 10:04 — nancync

Reading the WCPSS response linked in the article, it'a hard to fathom that the OCR can find anything substantive in the complaint when the entire quotes and relevant information left out of the complaint are aired for them to make and draw comparison with.

The complaint was full of inuendo and comments totally taken out of context, which is clearly spelled out and referenced as any good legal argument is.

The fact that the OCR has met with Mr. Tata and is postponing meeting with the board members shows they have a lot to learn, yet, about the baseless complaint filed by the NAACP.

 

Whine and Wonder

Fri, 04/01/2011 - 09:58 — MissV

Rewrite:

"Wake County School Board members continue their diligent work on behalf of school parents and children as OCR employees debate the course, direction and purpose of their investigation".

Much better headline

Fri, 04/01/2011 - 10:00 — FSandYOU

The Feds game of chicken is over as they just balked.

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T. Keung Hui covers Wake schools.
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