CREDIT: AP A lawsuit filed Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union paints a grim picture of a school district whose leadership bears little resemblance to its student body. Although “African-American students accounted for 77.1% of total enrollment in the Ferguson-Florissant School District in the 2011-2012 school year,” only one of the district’s seven school board members are black.
Aclu Sues To End Almost Total White Control Over Ferguson’s Majority Black School System
Ian Millhiser, Think Progress
Thu, 12/18/2014 - 2:51pm
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