Parents Seek To Allow Children To Transfer Out of Akron District

By Jeanne Ponessa

White parents in Akron, Ohio, have filed a court challenge to allow their children to change school districts under the state's open-enrollment law.

Calling themselves the Equal Open Enrollment Association, 13 families filed a motion last week in U.S. District Court seeking a preliminary injunction against the school board.

The parents charge that the Akron school district has unfairly applied a "racial balance" exception to the open-enrollment law by prohibiting white students from transferring out of the 32,000-student system...