No other way to look at the results of the school board election in Wake County. Advocates of Wake’s complex busing regime aimed at socio-economic “balance” were turned out on their ears. Advocates for parental choice and neighborhood schools swept in.

That shudder you felt came from the EdShed, where CMS social scientists have long coveted Wake’s busing program as a way to recover from losses in the courts which dismantled Mecklenburg’s own cross-county bus regime.