Delores Clark v. Board of Education of the Little Rock School District, Delores Clark v. The Board of Education of the Little Rock School District

We are again asked to review a District Court decree purporting to establish a unitary school system in Little Rock, Arkansas. 1 The court’s proposed plan employs a variety of techniques, including pairing, clustering, and contiguous and noncontiguous zoning to achieve the stated objective. Under the plan, grades 6 through 12 would be integrated at the beginning of the 1971-72 school year. All students in grades 6 and 7 would be assigned to four middle school centers located in the generally white residential areas in the western section of the city; all students in grades 8 and 9 would be…