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Christine Kreyling reports:

By CHAS SISK • Staff Writer(Tennessean) • July 22, 2008

The Metro Council may take up debate on whether eminent domain should be used to seize a Music Row property under a proposal now being drafted.

In a scene that seemed straight out of the civil rights era, the NAACP has just demanded that the school board reconsider its rezoning plan and, in the meantime, take $6 million from its reserve funds and spend it immediately to begin improving Pearl-Cohn schools.

The controversial school board rezoning vote punctuated by charges that the Chamber of Commerce masterminded the plan to move north Nashville students to the inner city Pearl Cohn cluster is blowing up into a media conflagration and now so-called "liberals"

Today's city paper story references Councilman At Large Jerry Maynard regarding this past weeks vote. This is interesting as I reached out to Councilman Jerry Maynard and received no response to my email. Additionally, Jerry Maynard attended none of the public meetings of the task force.

It’s been nearly a week since the Chamber of Commerce rolled back racial progress in the city by voting to resegregate schools. Oh wait, that was the school board that did that. I get the two confused. Anyway, there’s still been no word from any of the city’s white progressive leaders on this issue.

Councilman Jerry Maynard is not pleased at all by the recent actions of the school board:

Metro Council member Jerry Maynard says “there’s a strong possibility” the school board will wind up in court trying to defend its rezoning plan.

The new school zoning lines were drawn to make the district run more economically by filling up schools that now have too few students and closing others. At least that's what the plan's advocates have been insisting.