Research suddenly matters to proponents of forced busing!

Here is a blast from the past:

Diversity study shot down
T. Keung Hui
12 December 2008
The News & Observer

The Wake County school board has quashed a proposal to study whether its highly touted diversity policy is helping students academically.

School board members Ron Margiotta and Horace Tart asked this week whether administrators could track the performance of students who are assigned for diversity reasons. But other board members questioned the validity of the study as they insisted that the diversity policy is working.

“I’ve been at these [high poverty] schools,” said school board member Lori Millberg, whose children have attended schools in eastern Wake. “The stress on the teachers, the stress on the schools. I don’t need any further study to see if our diversity policy is working.”

We still don’t have the report requested by Margiotta and Tart a year and a half ago.