When Wake County Republicans gather these days, they cheer the loudest for their school board members, spear-carriers in a war against—a favorite GOP term—social engineering. (Also known to them as busing, a bad word. Or as busing for diversity, another bad word.) They reserve their very loudest cheers for the voluble leader of their school board contingent, John Tedesco. So it wouldn't be surprising if Tedesco were the least popular school board member with pro-diversity Democrats, especially given that he is also an upstart candidate for the Republican nomination for state superintendent of public instruction—a contest in which the winner will go against a popular Democratic incumbent, June Atkinson...

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