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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.

The federal judge overseeing the long running desegregation case denied a motion Tuesday from PCSSD seeking enforcement of recent changes made within the district in response to fiscal problems.  |   Federal Court Ruling on PCSSD / Union Dispute (273.3KB)

A federal judge declared the North Little Rock School District unitary on Tuesday.  |   NLR Unitary Status Order (64.6KB)

Three Little Rock-area school districts are asking a federal judge to deny Arkansas' attempt to end a desegregation settlement agreement that has required the state to pay the schools more than $1 billion since 1989.

An attorney for the Little Rock School District told a federal judge on Thursday that Arkansas has created a "competing system" of charter schools in Pulaski County that violate the state's 1989 desegregation agreement.

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel asked a federal judge on Monday to end a desegregation settlement agreement with three Little Rock-area school districts that has required the state to pay the schools more than $1 billion since 1989.  |   Motion for Release from desegregation funding (122.8KB)

Arkansas cannot cut off millions of dollars in funding for desegregation programs in Little Rock-area school districts until the state asks a federal judge for permission to do so, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.