LDF Successfully Defends Lower Court Ruling in Historic School Desegregation Case
Posted By The Editors | January 3rd, 2012 (20 seconds ago) | Category: Education | No Comments »
Print This PostNew York, NY – On December 28, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit affirmed key aspects of the lower court’s decision in Little Rock School District v. Lorene Joshua.
This long-standing school desegregation case involves key educational equity issues, including: racial disparities in school discipline, student achievement, access to advanced placement and honors curriculum and inequities in school facilities within three Arkansas school districts, the Little Rock School District, the North Little Rock School District and the Pulaski County School District. Each of these districts once illegally segregated students by race and were subjected to intra-district school desegregation orders. LDF represents the original beneficiaries of the case—the class of African-American students and parents now known as the “Joshua Intervenors”.
The case is perhaps best known for its link to the historic 1958 standoff in which then-Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used National Guard troops to block the entrance of the African-American students known as the “Little Rock Nine” into then all-white Central High School. In 1982, another dimension was added to the multi-district desegregation saga when the Little Rock School District, joined by the Joshua Intervenors, filed a
