The Little Rock School District filed its motion today in federal court for a summary judgment that the state of Arkansas had broken the 1989 desegregation agrement by:

* Approving open enrollment charter schools in Pulaski County without court review.
* By failing to identify programs to deal with racial disparity in student performance.
* By abandoning monitoring responsibilities.
* By adopting a state transportation aid formula that penalizes Pulaski County.
* By retailiating in transportation formula, failure to pay attorney fees and by impossing accounting standards on the district it hasn’t applied to others.

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Here’s the motion.

Here’s the brief in support.

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Here’s a statement of undisputed facts.

The state will respond by March 12 and Judge Price Marshall will hear arguments March 29.

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This ought to be good for some legislative fulmination.

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