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Wake schools' diversity policy, instituted in 2000, sought to limit the percentage of children in any one school who qualified for a free or reduced-price lunch.

I'm among those who appear in the film, interviewed because of Facing South's ongoing reporting on the Kochs' and AFP's involvement in North Carolina politics, and on the effort to end the desegregation policy in Wake County's public school system, the largest in North Carolina and 17th largest in the nation. AFP also supported local groups that advocated for an end to the diversity policy. Brave New Foundation points out that the AFP-NC chapter had access to approximately $1 million from 2007 to 2009 - money critical in laying the groundwork for that election. The Kochs have given over $5 million to date to AFP, which supported the anti-diversity candidates who won the majority of seats in the 2009 Wake school board election. One of the major beneficiaries of the brothers' largesse is Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group founded by the Kochs that has worked closely with the right-wing tea party movement. 'Their assault against public education epitomizes their tactics to remake our nation.' 'The Koch brothers have more than $42 billion to make public policy out of their anti-government ideology,' says Robert Greenwald, founder of Brave New Foundation. conservative movement and promote an agenda of education privatization. The Koch family foundations are among the largest sources of funding for the U.S.

It's the latest installment in Brave New Foundation's 'Koch Brothers Exposed' series, which critically examines the political advocacy work of David and Charles Koch of Koch Industries, a private energy conglomerate based in Kansas. The 11-minute video (posted below) delves into the controversy in Wake County, N.C., where conservative activists with help from Koch-funded groups organized to bring an end to the public school system's lauded diversity policy. The role that the conservative billionaire Koch brothers' money has played in an ongoing fight over the re-segregation of public schools in one North Carolina community is the focus of a new video from Brave New Foundation, a progressive media organization based in California.

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