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...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...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.
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.
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