Nation IN BRIEF : KANSAS : Integration Ruling to be Challenged

Members of the Topeka, Kan., school board said they will appeal a court ruling that held the city’s schools were not sufficiently integrated, meaning the U.S. Supreme Court will be asked to review the city’s progress in desegregating its schools in the wake of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision declaring segregated schools unconstitutional. The landmark case was reopened in 1979 by the parents of 17 black schoolchildren, who alleged the district had not desegregated schools. U.S. District Judge Richard Rogers ruled against the plaintiffs in 1987 but was overruled by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.