Content Tagged 'desegregation'

A federal judge rejected claims Thursday by the Little Rock School District that the growth of charter schools violates the settlement agreement in the long running desegregation case.  |   Desegregation Charter Schools Ruling (1.1MB)

The Pulaski County Special School District has asked a federal judge to release it from federal oversight in a 30-year long desegregation case.   |   PCSSD files motion to be declared unitary (65.6KB)

The Little Rock School District wants to have its say in the appeal of a judge's decision to throw out Arkansas' school choice law, but parents who brought the original lawsuit want a federal appeals panel to block the move.

As part of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives Conference at the Statehouse Convention Center, a panel of speakers took up the topic Sunday afternoon of The Lost Class, referring to the school year 1958-1959.

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.

Should race play a factor in deciding where a child should attend school?

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.