Texas school district released from federal desegregation order after 43 years
The days of legalized school segregation in Texas are long past. But the consequences of the state’s legacy of American Apartheid are not.
Since 1970, Richardson ISD has operated under federal judicial supervision that required the school district to take measures to enhance diversity — a status that did not end until this week.
Multiple school districts across the nation were placed under the civil rights-era desegregation orders, but were able to have the order dismissed. The process of unitary status allows districts to ask the court to dismiss the desegregation litigation.
Unitary status meant that a school district would be required to assign staff in a desegregated manner, hire and treat staff without regard to race, establish a majority to minority transfer policy, regularly examine its transportation system, eliminate segregation in extracurricular activities and create a biracial advisory body. (That was before the days of “multi-ethnic” schools in Texas.)
More at http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2013/07/texas-school-district-released-from-federal-desegregation-order-after-43-years/ .
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