NATIONAL BRIEFING / TEXAS
A federal judge has ruled that the Galveston public school system is desegregated, ending a civil rights lawsuit that was initiated in 1959.
U.S. District Judge Sim Lake of Houston issued the ruling Friday, saying the district’s history of compliance with a 1969 desegregation plan showed that the schools had fully integrated.
In 2007, the League of United Latin American Citizens filed a complaint over the closure of a school with a heavily Latino student body. Lake, who approved that school’s closure, wrote in Friday’s ruling that he found no segregation in faculty and staff assignments, pupil transportation, achievement or special programs.
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