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Black leaders have been counting on the new school board to overturn the controversial student rezoning plan. The key vote? Alan Coverstone, who replaced board chair Marsha Warden, a strong advocate for the rezoning plan.

The NAACP Nashville branch is demanding that the MNPS BOE rescind their rezoning vote. I hope the BOE responds with thanks for their concern but lets them know they're not going to change a thing. The City Paper has their letter to the BOE.

The Nashville branch of the NAACP has just delivered an inflammatory letter to the school board comparing the student rezoning plan to a hangman's gallows for black children. The letter demands that the board rescind the plan. If the board refuses, the letter suggests the NAACP's intention to sue for discrimination.

It’s a simple enough question and one that seems like it’d be simple enough to answer, but I’ll be damned if I know.

Would it be wrong to start harassing the new editor of the Scene about this or would he think I’m a crackpot?

Black leaders have settled on a strategy to try to overturn the school board’s resegregation plan. They’ve decided to wait until after the Aug. 7 elections to give the new school board the chance to change the plan. If the board refuses, then a lawsuit is certain, a source tells Pith.

Aunt B. pens an ode to the NAACP.

I have been meaning to blog about this all week, but forgot.

Let’s recap.

–We have a school district.  Until recently, it was headed up by Pedro Garcia, whose goal in superintending seemed to be to throw everything against a wall and see what stuck.  He kind of really sucked.

Tim Chavez heaps high praises on the Presidential candidate he does not want to win for his speech to the NAACP today:

Jeff Woods reports from a community meeting at the Rev. Jerry Maynard’s his Southside Community Church on the recent school board vote to rezone Metro Schools.