Diaz v. San Jose Unified School District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, parents of all Spanish-surnamed children attending school in the San Jose Unified School District (the District), appeal the district court’s ruling that the District did not act with segregative intent in maintaining ethnically imbalanced schools. After a careful review of the record, we conclude that the district court’s finding that the defendants acted without segregative intent was clearly erroneous. Accordingly, we reverse.
I. BACKGROUND.
The Board of Education of the San Jose Unified School District (the Board) has been aware since at least 1962 that…
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