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Article: MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND URGES SUPREME COURT TO PERMIT COMMUNITIES TO CREATE DIVERSE SCHOOLS

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December 4, 2006
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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund issued the following news release:

Today, school districts, civil rights organizations and educators urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold local school districts' voluntary integration authority. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) filed an amicus curiae (friend-of-the-court) brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of 16 national and local Latino organizations. At issue in the two consolidated cases, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education is the continued authority of local school districts to take voluntary action to ...

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