Article: Chicago Urban League Files Civil Rights Lawsuit on School Funding

To: STATE EDITORS

Contact: Roderick Hawkins of Chicago Urban League, +1-773-451- 3536, +1-773-892-5427 (cell)

Lawsuit calls for an end to discriminatory practices that have left

African American and Latino children behind

CHICAGO, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Chicago Urban League has filed a lawsuit against the State of Illinois and the Illinois State Board of Education calling for the states current school funding scheme to be declared unconstitutional and in violation of the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003. The lawsuit asserts that the state of Illinois has, for decades, discriminated against families based on race and has deprived African American, Latino and other minority ...

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