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Article: Chicago Urban League Files Civil Rights Lawsuit on School Funding
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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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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