Mississippi School Ordered to Stop Segregation Practices
April 14, 2010 - A federal judge has ordered a Mississippi school district to stop its alleged practice of "clustering" students by race.
US District Judge Tom Lee ordered that the Walthall County School District "randomly assign students to classrooms at the Tylertown Elementary Schools through the use of a student management software program."
The school district stood accused of allowing some schools and classes to assign class groupings by race, allowing more than 300 students (mostly white) to transfer from their local, assigned schools to a predominantly white school.
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US District Judge Tom Lee ordered that the Walthall County School District "randomly assign students to classrooms at the Tylertown Elementary Schools through the use of a student management software program."
The school district stood accused of allowing some schools and classes to assign class groupings by race, allowing more than 300 students (mostly white) to transfer from their local, assigned schools to a predominantly white school.
Read more at Education News Today:
School Segregation news - http://education.einnews.com/news/education-school-segregation
Mississippi Education news - http://education.einnews.com/mississippi/
Located at http://education.einnews.com, Education News Today is a service of EIN News, an industry leader in news monitoring for researchers and analysts. Using a combination of proprietary search technology and human editing, EIN News delivers to its members the latest education news from around the world. New users to Education News Today can enjoy a no-obligation, one-week free trial.
About EIN Presswire
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