Federal File: Asking O.C.R.; Moving along

Officials from the Education Department's office for civil rights visited Calhoun County, Ga., earlier this month to investigate charges of racial inequities--not in itself an unusual event.

But this time, the agency was invited by Corkin Cherubini, the superintendent of schools in the rural, southwest Georgia county.

Mr. Cherubini, who was elected superintendent in 1992 after nearly 24 years as a teacher in the system, says he turned to the federal government after residents resisted his efforts to better integrate...