Racial Gerrymandering
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Judge rules CUSD's "guiding principle" effectively discriminated based on race

Sep 04, 2006
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Editorial, The Orange County Register “The ‘general guiding principle’ [of CUSD’s attendance boundaries] that no school shall have a ‘minority’ population greater than 35 percent limits the number of positions available at each high school for members of different ethnicities, effectively discriminating based on race,” the judge ruled. “This is in direct contravention of the state constitution as amended by Proposition 209.”

CUSD should view people as individuals, not members of racial groups

Sep 04, 2006
Sharon Browne, The Orange County Register “Our public schools should teach students to view people as individuals rather than members of certain racial groups.” That’s the right guiding principle – one that CUSD’s leadership should readily embrace. Browne is a Pacific Legal Foundation principal attorney.

Racial gerrymandering another symptom of arrogant CUSD leadership

Sep 04, 2006
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Editorial, The Orange County Register "CUSD is in the midst of a heated school board race, with many allegations of mismanagement hovering over the current board. The racially gerrymandered boundaries are another symptom of an arrogant district leadership. Instead of continuing the fight, the Capo Unified board – regardless of who wins election in November – should throw out its attendance boundaries and put together new ones that treat race and ethnicity in a neutral manner, as mandated by the law."

Judge rules CUSD's racial gerrymandering violates Prop 209

Sep 04, 2006
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Editorial, The Orange County Register "As Capistrano Unified School District Superintendent James Fleming retired under a cloud of controversy, Orange County Superior Court Judge Gail Andler issued a ruling Aug. 25 that is the equivalent of the door hitting Mr. Fleming on the backside as he left the building. The judge ruled that Capo Unified’s racially gerrymandered school attendance boundaries violate Proposition 209, which bans state and local governments from discriminating on the basis of race or ethnicity."