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UPDATE: Judge denies PCSSD partial unitary motion

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Updated: 12/10/2012 2:16 pm

Published: 12/10/2012 1:57 pm

LITTLE ROCK, AR - A federal judge denied a motion Monday filed by the Pulaski County Special School District to be declared partially unitary in a long running federal desegregation case.

Judge D. Price Marshall denied the motion without prejudice as "premature".

PCSSD, Little Rock & North Little Rock schools are part of a federal desegregation lawsuit that started in 1982.

All three districts receive approximately $70 million annually in state funding to comply with a federal desegregation settlement order in the case.

Governor Mike Beebe has pointed to ending desegregation payments as an avenue to lower the sales tax on groceries for the upcoming legislative session beginning in January.

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protector20 - 12/10/2012 9:58 PM

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Can't declare the district unitary. Might stop the flow of that handout the state is paying.

ArkansasYankee - 12/10/2012 7:15 PM

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Been going on for 30 years? And here I thought Brown vs. The Board and busing stopped all this nonsense. In plain English; why aren't the schools desegregated by now? Are the judges that keep this alive also making money? Just curious.

pat72209 - 12/10/2012 7:03 PM

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THE MONEY THESE LAWYERS HAVE MADE OFF THIS CASE IS OBSCENE. INTEGRATION WOULD HAVE WORKED IF THE DISCIPLINE HAD BEEN THE SAME AFTER AS IT WAS BEFORE...THAT IS MAINLY WHY PRIVATE SCHOOLS SPRUNG UP...NO DISCIPLINE AND THE BEHAVIOR WAS UNACCEPTABLE AND THE TEACHERS WOULD NOT DISCIPLINE THE BLACK KIDS FOR FEAR OF THEIR JOBS......TEACHERS WHO WENT TO THE FORMERLY PREDOMINANTLY BLACK SCHOOL WERE SAID TO BE GETTING "COMBAT" PAY. HELLL FIRE, NO ONE WANTS TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS. NOW THERE AREN'T ENOUGH WHITE CHILDREN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO CALL THEM INTEGRATED....STOP THE MONEY FLOW.

itsjustme - 12/10/2012 2:31 PM

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Im sick of hearing about this. End it already.

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