McNeal v. Tate County School District

508 F.2d 1017 (1975)

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McNeal v. Tate County School District

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
508 F.2d 1017 (1975)

Facts

The Tate County School District (district) (defendant) lost a court case and was ordered to desegregate its classrooms. In response, the district ended its system of school choice in secondary schools and instead instituted a geographical school-assignment system. The district continued, however, its practice of making intraschool classroom assignments in primary schools based on teacher-reported ability level. After the reforms, some schools within the district still had some all-White and all-Black classroom sections. A group (plaintiff) petitioned the district court to hold the district in contempt for violating the initial court order. The district court declined to sanction the district, finding that the district’s technical violation of the court order was the result of an honest effort by district officials to create a system that offered the best education to all children while treating all children the same. The district court opined that the only alternative to deferring to the judgment of district officials would be to mandate a race-conscious, ratio-balancing system, which the district court declined to do. The group appealed.

Rule of Law

Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Clark, J.)

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