School board elections usually garner little public attention, but in 2009, . The election occurred against a backdrop of increasing concerns over student assignment policies, tremendous population growth, and the rise of the state鈥檚 Republican party.
Republicans took over the school board and formally ended the policy that used bussing for diversity. The new book 鈥溾�� (UNC Press/2015) argues that this election represented the end of a decade-long consensus about how to achieve diversity in Wake County public schools.
Host Frank Stasio talks with co-authors , professor of sociology at North Carolina State University, and , professor of political science at North Carolina State University, about their in Wake County.
