Legal Opinion
Groves v. Alabama State Board of Education
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided October 3, 1991No. Civ. A. 88-T-730-NPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.
With this litigation, the court has had to venture again into the often complex and controversial area of teacher testing. Plaintiffs Gregory Groves, Floretta L. Coley, and Arnita Holder brought this civil-rights action in 1988, challenging the requirement imposed by defendant Alabama State Board of Education that college sophomores seeking admission to undergraduate teacher training programs in Alabama have achieved a minimum score of 16 on the American College Testing Program’s ACT exam or a 17 on the new, “enhanced” ACT exam. 1 Plaintiffs…
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