In Wayne County, one high school is now 99 percent African-American, which prompted the NAACP to file a federal complaint alleging “apartheid education.”

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As education secretary Arne Duncan begins his review of equality in the nation’s schools—he recently called it the “civil-rights issue of our generation”—he may want to take a close look at North Carolina. Previously a model of desegregation, the state’s classrooms have begun to divide again along racial lines. In Charlotte, federally mandated busing ensured balance until 1999, when a court ruled that integration had been accomplished. Since then the number of 90 percent–minority schools has jumped almost fivefold.

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