JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge says Mississippi’s Cleveland school district must merge its high schools and middle schools to achieve racial desegregation.
U.S. District Judge Debra Brown handed down the ruling late Friday, nearly a year after she held a week-long hearing on the subject.
The U.S. Justice Department had sought the merger, saying Cleveland was illegally maintaining high schools and middle schools that were racially identifiable as black or white.
District officials had argued that they had successfully desegregated a number of elementary schools using magnet programs, and noted that even the “white” high school and middle school have student bodies that are roughly half black. Local leaders opposed combining the schools, saying they feared white parents in the Mississippi Delta district would flee to private schools.
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1954 Brown v. Board of Education…Mississippi’s response? “HUh, wHat’s that you say?”
And OOoopsy-daisy here we go again…it wasn’t until 2013 Mississippi realized they never took that pesky 13th amendment seriously either. The oversight was kind of a big deal however. Until February 7, 2013, the state of Mississippi had never submitted the required documentation to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, meaning it never officially had abolished slavery.
Mississippi’s motto should be: “Keepin It 1865 Since Before We Could Count” or “Only Two Centuries Behind…But Coming Up Fast”
Local leaders opposed combining the schools, saying they feared white parents in the Mississippi Delta district would flee to private schools.
Those that were have been gone for years…
I for one am sick of TPM recycling old new stories just to get clicks! And pulling crap from, like, 1962? That’s beyond the pale and furthermore…
Wait, what? 2016 you say?
Do these “leaders” even know where Mississippi is socio-economically?
Unless private schools are free down there, not much chance of that.
Home-schooling now, that might become more of a thing. And with the racists teaching the younger generation…that’d be the kind of education that would make Trump University look good.