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Federal court orders Mississippi district under 1965 desegregation order to establish an open enrollment procedure

The Bolivar Commercial reports that Glen H. Davidson, Senior U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi, has issued an opinion in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s allegation that the Cleveland School District continues to practice a form of segregation by operating separate middle schools and high schools, which have nearly 100% black student populations.

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Federal appellate court temporarily stays order barring local Louisiana district from implementing school voucher program

In a 2-1 split, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has temporarily stayed the portion of a federal district court order preliminarily enjoining the state of Louisiana from implementing its recently enacted private school voucher program as applied to the Tangipahoa Parish School District.

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Louisiana state court rules voucher program unconstitutional

The Associated Press reports in The Washington Post that Governor Bobby Jindal’s voucher program that uses tax dollars to send students to private schools has been ruled unconstitutional by a state judge who said it is improperly funded through the public school financing formula.

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Federal judge rules Louisiana voucher program conflicts with desegregation order in local school district

As reported by The Associated Press in The Times-Picayune, a federal district court judge has held that the operation of Governor Bobby Jindal’s voucher program in Tangipahoa Parish conflicts with a decades-old desegregation case in the parish.

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Louisiana district cites state voucher law as reason for difficulty in complying with federal desegregation orders

According to an Associated Press report in The Times-Picayune, the Tangipahoa Parish school system argues that Louisiana’s new voucher law, which pays private school tuition for some lower-income students from low-performing schools, diverts state money from the local school district.

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Mississippi district and DOJ battle in federal court over proposed desegregation plan

The Associated Press reports in the Times Union that a federal district court in Mississippi will hear arguments in December 2012 on proposals to desegregate two schools in the Cleveland School District.

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Alabama district and DOJ reach agreement on proposed consent decree in 1963 desegregation case

According to the Birmingham News, the Fort Payne City School District has reached a settlement in a nearly 50-year-old school desegregation lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Federal court declares Arkansas district unitary

The Associated Press reports in The Republic that a federal district court judge has declared the North Little Rock School District substantially desegregated, complying with a federal appellate court ruling last year that the schools could be released from court supervision.

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Federal appellate court rules district that has not achieved unitary status must show student assignment plan is consistent with controlling desegregation order

In a 2-1 split, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (MD, NC, SC, VA, WV) has ruled that a federal district court erred when, in examining the plaintiffs’ motion for injunctive and other relief for an alleged breach of a settlement agreement and consent order, it failed to apply, and require a North Carolina school district to rebut, the presumption that any racial disparities in its 2011-2012 assignment plan resulted from the school board’s prior unconstitutional conduct in operating a racially segregated school district.

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