The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a stay in the Pulaski County desegregation case. So we go on and on. But of course they get to keep their extra desegregation money from the state.
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has argued for a long time that the districts are not using these funds for desegregation purposes, but they are filling holes in their budgets with it. And they are most concerned about keeping the flow of money coming their way, so they don't want the desegregation case to end. See this recent statement.
The ADG this morning quoted him as saying, "The basis for the State’s current supplemental payments to the districts was as a remedy for alleged constitutional violations in student to school assignments.
“Rather than being necessary to remedy segregation, the court-ordered supplemental desegregation distributions had become an impediment, encouraging the districts to remain in litigation as long as possible in order to continue receiving funds.”
According to McDaniel, the districts have sufficient financial reserves to absorb the loss of desegregation funds. Their attorneys of course have denied McDaniel’s argument.
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