Schools’ desegregation oversight relaxed - Education - MSNBC.com: CHICAGO - After a quarter century, a judge has released portions of Chicago Public Schools’ desegregation plan from federal oversight.
In a decree issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Charles Kocoras eliminated a set of spending and reporting requirements from the original 1980 agreement covering the nation’s third-largest school system, which has about 431,000 students.
“The current demographic makeup of Chicago and its student population bears virtually no resemblance to that which gave rise to litigation between the parties in the first instance,” Kocoras wrote.
