by Lesley Brody, Wall Street Journal
A coalition of civil-rights advocates Thursday filed a lawsuit against New Jersey to prod the state to better integrate its public schools.
The suit organized by the New Jersey Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools argues that policies that require most children to attend neighborhood schools, along with residential segregation, violate students’ right to equal protection and the state constitution’s guarantee of a “thorough and efficient” education.
Joe Strupp, Asbury Park Press For two communities located side by side, Freehold Borough and Freehold Township are quite different. And so are their schools. While the Freehold Borough School District
by John Mooney, Education Writer, NJ Spotlight News It may soon go down in the lexicon of New Jersey’s most famous equity court cases: Latino Action Network v. State of New Jersey. Right up there with
by Joe Hernandez, WHY-PBS A judge ruled Friday that a major lawsuit against the state of New Jersey over racial and socioeconomic segregation in the public school system can move forward. The complain