According to the Lebanon Daily News, the Lebanon school board unanimously agreed to settle a lawsuit involving the district’s truancy policy and accusations that it excessively fined parents of minority students with multiple unexcused absences.
Continue reading...Reuters reports in the Huffington Post that the NAACP has lodged a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education charging that the admissions test for New York City’s specialized high schools discriminates against African-American and Latino students.
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...According to The Citizen, the Fayette County Branch of the NAACP has entered into a settlement agreement that will resolve that portion of NAACP’s redistricting lawsuit pertaining to the Fayette County Board of Education. The proposed consent decree awaits formal approval from the school board.
Continue reading...The Lebanon Daily News reports that a federal district court has denied Lebanon School District’s (LSD) motion to dismiss a class action suit brought by a group of parents over truancy fines.
Continue reading...The News & Observer reports that the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is calling on the Wake County school board to delay its scheduled vote on the new student assignment plan until at least after the November 2011 runoff election.
Continue reading...According to The Capital, the Anne Arundel County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has filed a formal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education (ED) that alleges African-American students continue to be disciplined in numbers out of balance with their enrollment. The NAACP complaint maintains that the disparity in minority disciplinary rates violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act and falls short of goals outlined in an 2005 agreement between county schools and civil rights advocates mediated by the Department of Justice Community Relations Services.
Continue reading...The Wake County Board of Education defended its actions as part of a federal civil rights investigation, says WRAL in Raleigh. In a response to an inquiry from the [U.S. Department of Education's] Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the board wrote that decisions about how to assign students to the 163 schools across the county were not “motivated by racial animus.”
Continue reading...The New York Times reports that the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce (GRCC) has proposed a student assignment plan for Wake County Public Schools (WCPS) that would base student assignment on student academic performance. Specifically, under the plan, no school would have an overwhelming number of failing students. Instead a school might have 70% of students who have scored at a proficient level on state tests and 30% who are below grade level. GRCC proposed the plan in an attempt to end the dispute between the Wake County School Board, which in a 5-4 vote scrapped WCPS’s widely acclaimed student assignment plan based on socio-economic factors in favor of assigning students to neighborhood schools, and groups, such as the NAACP, representing the minority community in Wake County.
Continue reading...According to Frost Illustrated, Paulette Nellems, president of the Fort Wayne Branch of the NAACP, is asking why Paul Harding High School (PHHS) and East Allen County Schools (EACS) officials have refused to discuss an incident Nellems said could involve a violation of one student’s Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure. According to Nellems, the legal guardian of a student at PHHS accused of wrongdoing believes that the student’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated and has some serious concerns about the policies and procedures followed by the assistant principal that allowed him to be alone in a room with a student while he searched the student down to undergarments.
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