Educational remedies for school segregation: A social science statement to the U.S. Supreme Court in Missouri v. Jenkins

摘要: On January 11, 1995, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in case of State Missouri v. Jenkins (Case No. 93-1923). The petitioned 1994 to overturn lower federal court rulings that required it continue paying for Kansas City's school desegregation plan. State's request was based on two arguments. First, contended remedies ordered by district exceeded its previously established liability. Second, argued had fulfilled constitutional responsibility remedy vestiges segregation making significant financial expenditures implement complex array voluntary and educational programs. class plaintiffs, City School District, teachers' union opposed State, contending could not be relieved remedial obligations under decree merely showing spent a certain sum money. Instead, they argued, must make some become unitary more than century purposeful been eliminated extent practicable. Missouri's liability 1984, when Federal District Judge Russell Clark found both responsible maintaining racial isolation African American students [Jenkins Missouri, 593 ESupp. 1485 (W.D. Mo. 1984)]. 1 unconstitutional