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LITTLE ROCK SCH. D. v. PULASKI CTY. SP. SCH. D. 1

No. LR-C-82-866.

660 F.Supp. 637 (1987)

LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, Plaintiff, v. PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1; North Little Rock School District; Arkansas State Board of Education; Wayne Hartsfield; Walter Turnbow; Harry A. Haines; Jim Dupree; Dr. Harry P. McDonald; Robert L. Newton; Alice L. Preston; Jeff Starling; Earle Love; Bob Lyon; John Ward; Judy Wear; Leon Barnes; Marianna Gosser; Steve Morley; Mac Faulkner; Bob Moore; Don Hindman; Shirley Lowery; Sheryl Dunn; David Sain; Bob Stender; Grainger Williams; Richard A. Giddings; George A. McCrary; Buddy Raines; and Dale Ward, Defendants, Katherine Knight, Individually and as President of The Little Rock Classroom Teachers Association (LRCTA); LRCA; Ed Bullington, Individually and as President of The Pulaski Association of Classroom Teachers (PACT); PACT; John Harrison, Individually and as President of The North Little Rock Classroom Teachers Association (NLRCTA); NLRCTA; and Milton Jackson, Individually and as a Non-Certified Educational Support Employee of the Little Rock School District, Lorene Joshua, as next friend of minors Leslie Joshua, Stacy Joshua and Wayne Joshua; Rev. Robert Willingham; Sara Matthews as next friend of Khayyam Davis, Alexa Armstrong and Karlos Armstrong; Mrs. Alvin Hudson as next friend of Tatia Hudson; Mrs. Hilton Taylor as next friend of Parsha Taylor, Hilton Taylor, Jr. and Brian Taylor; Rev. John M. Miles as next friend of Janice Miles and Dereck Miles; Rev. Robert Willingham on behalf of and as President of the Little Rock Branch of the NAACP; Lorene Joshua on Behalf of and as President of the North Little Rock Branch of NAACP, Becky McKinney, Mary J. Gage, Janice Dent and Joyce Person, Intervenors.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, W.D.

May 13, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P.A. Hollingsworth, Philip E. Kaplan, Janet L. Pulliam, John M. Bilheimer, Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiff.

Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, Little Rock, Ark., Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, Ill., C.R. McNair, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., Sharon Streett, Dept. of Educ., Little Rock, Ark., Jack, Lyon & Jones, Little Rock, Ark., Stephen L. Curry, Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

Theodore Shaw, New York City, John W. Walker, Little Rock, for intervenors Joshua, et al.

Richard Roachell, Cearley, Mitchell & Roachell, Little Rock, Ark., for intervenors Knight, et al.

Robert D. Cabe, Cabe & Lester, Little Rock, Ark., for intervenors McKinney, et al.

ORDER

HENRY WOODS, District Judge.

I.

INTRODUCTION

This order deals only with teacher reassignments in the Little Rock School District (LRSD). The Little Rock School District Plan approved by this Court on February 27, 1987, noted that 40% of the staff of the LRSD was black. (LRSD Plan p. 16). The Plan had a goal of 50% black staff within the next five years.

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