School Desegregation Case Ends After 26 Years
After 26 years of costly litigation, the Kansas City School District’s $2-billion federal desegregation case is officially over.
Arthur A. Benson II, attorney for the plaintiff schoolchildren, withdrew his appeal of a ruling that said the district had met all the legal requirements to end federal court oversight.
In August, U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple ruled on the only issue that remained in the case, the black-white achievement gap. He said the district had narrowed the gap enough that its desegregation program no longer needed supervision.
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