Hearing Monday To See If Little Rock School District Should Still Be Under Desegregation Watch
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A hearing is set Monday in federal court over
whether the Little Rock School District has completed its plan to
comply with a federal desegregation order.
The district argues that it has completed improvement of its
evaluation system, and that it can show improvement among
African-American students in literacy, math and science.
But Little Rock attorney John Walker says the district has not
made a "good-faith effort" to complete its plan. Walker is
challenging the district`s effort to be removed from nearly five
decades of federal desegregation monitoring.
The sides are to present arguments today before U-S District
Judge William R- Wilson.
In 2002, Wilson released the district from almost all monitoring
-- including supervision of extracurricular activities, discipline
and hiring policies. The judge kept in place the district`s system
for evaluating programs targeting black students.
