Last week, the the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and the Wake Education Partnership released a proposed assignment plan formulated by consultant Michael Alves.

Suddenly, those groups and indviduals who protested the loudest – NAACP, Great Schools in Wake Coalition, Mayor Charles Meeker, etc. – are mostly silent about the plan. Sure, the NAACP took their cheap shots at selected school board members during Saturday’s HK on J rally. We’ve heard it all before. The conversation has changed.