Irving ISD Gamed Census Numbers to Keep Latinos Off School Board, Lawsuit Claims
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| A, shall we say, less-than-diverse Irving ISD board of trustees |
Manuel Benavidez, a retired American Airlines employee, who made unsuccessful runs for the school board in 2000 and 2005, says the district may be violating the federal Voting Rights Act. His electoral losses, he claims, had more to do with Irving ISD's at-large districts than his unpopularity as a candidate. When he first filed suit against the district back in 2008, Irving ISD's school-board members all could have conceivably lived on the same street. This, he argued, was not equal