Dallas School Roiled by Segregation Ruling
Judge says principal ran ‘private school for Anglo children’ in public school.
A civil rights group criticized Dallas school officials last week because they haven’t removed an elementary school principal who was found by a federal judge to be illegally segregating African-American and Latino children from their non-Hispanic white peers.
The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a Latino advocacy group, had sued on behalf of Lucresia Mayorga Santamaria, saying that two of the Dallas mother’s children were discriminated against because they were assigned to English-as-a-second-language classes at Preston Hollow Elementary School based on their ethnicity, not their language ability.
In a 107-page ruling issued Nov. 16, U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay ruled that Teresa Parker, the principal of Preston Hollow, was personally liable for violating the children’s rights under the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He ordered the principal to pay Ms....
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