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Clyde Edgerton Banned From Wilmington School District

WUNC | By Anita Rao,

Frank Stasio

Published June 6, 2016 at 12:21 PM EDT

Author Clyde Edgerton

Author Clyde Edgerton

Famed North Carolina authorClyde Edgertonis best known for his witty, character-driven novels about Southern life, like“Raney”and “Killer Diller.”He is now in the headlines for being banned from all public schools in New Hanover County where two of his children attend elementary school.

The ban centers around a grievance he filed alleging discrimination in the Spanish immersion program at Forest Hills Elementary School.Edgertonsays the school has not given students of color equal opportunity to enroll in the program. The school system superintendent gaveEdgertonpermission to attend his child’s graduation this week, but the ban still remains.Author Clyde Edgerton talks about equal opportunity for student in New Hanover Schools.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Edgerton about the latest. The New Hanover County School District declined to participate in the conversation.

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Anita Rao

Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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