Judge to close 1967 desegregation suit against N.C. school

A school district in North Carolina's Bertie County expects a judge to sign off on an order to end a decades-old federal desegregation lawsuit. The lawsuit, brought in 1967, continued to require district resources by requiring legal fees and occasional attention from administrators. Most school districts don't bother with closing similar cases, a University of North Carolina law professor said, because conditions are so different from when the suit was filed.

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This story published in AASA School Business SmartBrief on 08/28/2009





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