Jenkins ex rel. Agyei v. Missouri

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Another appeal from the Kansas City, Missouri, School District desegregation remedy is now before us. The State appeals from a district court1 order approving a contingency plan that modifies the magnet school admissions policy for the 1990-91 school year. The contingency plan temporarily allows deviation from the original Long-Range Magnet School Plan, which required that new magnet schools open with a student population that is 60% minority and 40% non-minority. The State argues that the district court erred or abused its discretion in adopting the contingency…