The Sixth Circuit has ruled that a Tennessee school district’s student assignment plan does not violate African-American students’ Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights.
Continue reading...According to the Arkansas News, a bill has been introduced in the Arkansas legislature to replace the state’s public school choice law that placed racial restrictions on where students could attend school.
Continue reading...The Tuscaloosa News reports that the Alabama Education Association (AEA) opposes Amendment 4, which would remove language from the state’s constitution providing for separate schools by race.
Continue reading...As reported on thetowntalk.com, Avoyelles Parish public schools’ recently adopted policy regarding the selection of cheerleaders and majorettes is facing opposition as the school district seeks a judicial declaration of unitary status as to extracurricular activities.
Continue reading...Nashville Public Radio reports on wpln.org that the Nashville, Tennessee chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans to appeal a state court ruling that Nashville Metro Schools’ attendance zones do not intentionally discriminate against African-American students.
Continue reading...A federal district court in Arkansas has ruled that a provision in the state’s Public School Choice Act of 1989 that limits a student’s statutory right to transfer from one public school district to another in the state based on the race of the student seeking the transfer violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment.
Continue reading...The Tennessean reports that a class action suit charging that Metro Nashville school district’s redistricting plan catered to white families and rezoned black students out of affluent, higher-achieving schools is set to go to trial this week.
Continue reading...According to The Courier-Journal, the Kentucky Supreme Court may uphold Jefferson County’s student assignment plan, based on questions asked by the justices during oral arguments involving whether state law guarantees students seats in their neighborhood schools.
Continue reading...Arkansas Attorney General (AG) Dustin McDaniel has asked a federal court to terminate the annual payment the state makes to fund desegregation programs in Pulaski County’s three public school districts, reports the Arkansas News.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (ND, SD, MN, NE, IA, MO, AR) has reversed a federal district court’s order ending most of Arkansas’ funding obligations to three school districts under a 1989 desegregation settlement agreement. The panel concluded that the state’s funding responsibilities may only be terminated after a formal evidentiary hearing, “followed by comprehensive and detailed findings of fact and conclusions of law.”
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