Posted on 03/16/2005 7:48:42 AM PST by MTBNate
The Caddo Parish School Board has voted to ask a federal appeals court in New Orleans to reconsider its ruling that the school district has been using unconstitutional racial quotas in some of its magnet school admissions.
Last week, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on a suit brought by a Shreveport couple, Julie Ann and Kevin Cavalier. The Cavaliers, who are white, said their son scored higher than other students but was denied admission to Caddo Middle Magnet because of racial quotas. Two of the three judges on the appeals court panel agreed and sent the case back to the U.S. District Court in Shreveport.
Mrs. Cavalier handled the case without a lawyer. The Cavalier suit asks that Caddo's admission policies be changed. The case would affect elementary and middle magnet schools.
The school system is asking all 16 judges on the appeals court to look at the Caddo case and to block any changes in school policies while the appeal is underway.
Monday's board decision on the appeal came after an hour-long meeting behind closed doors. School Board president Willie Henderson said the board believes the magnet admission system had been approved by federal courts.
"Now to have the courts come back and tell us what you're doing is wrong is very frustrating to us," Henderson said. "We feel that the least we can do is make that point with them."
At a news conference after the board meeting, schools Superintendent Ollie Tyler sought to assure parents that magnet schools will remain committed to providing quality education.
"We want to stress (that) magnet schools are not being eliminated," Tyler said, reading from a prepared statement.
However, Tyler said parents should not expect acceptance letters for next school year before March 30.
Caddo schools officials say an admissions policy allowing a lesser test score to black students is permissible because of a 1981 desegregation consent decree.
Don't bet on it with SCOTUS sodomite Souter and his merry band of judicial 'moderates' who are re-writing the Constitution on a daily basis to further leftist agendas.
sodomite Souter Whoa... that's a bit of a stretch ain't it..?
Affirmative Action goes against everything MLK said on equality - that someday children will be judged on the content of thier character and not the color of their skin. GWB is correct, if they wish to elevate disadvantaged, then base on income not race. AA is an insult to both minorities and non-minorities that says "don't raise the bridge, lower the water".
Affirmative Action goes against everything MLK said on equality - that someday children will be judged on the content of thier character and not the color of their skin. GWB is correct, if they wish to elevate disadvantaged, then base on income not race. AA is an insult to both minorities and non-minorities that says "don't raise the bridge, lower the water".
No, it is not a stretch. In fact, it explains many SCOTUS decisions, including the creation of a constitutional right to sodomy.
Here is the 5th Circuit Court's Decision:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/5th/0330395p.pdf
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