Van Blerkom v. Donovan

Chief Judge Desmond.

This is an article 78 proceeding brought by parents against the New York City Board of Education for a judgment annulling a determination of the board which, effective as of September, 1964, rezoned Public School No. 6 in Manhattan. The position of the petitioners — that the rezoning of this school was unreasonable, arbitrary and in excess of the discretionary powers of the Board of Education—is set forth in petitioners’ brief thus: “ To achieve a fixed racial quota at Public School 6 the respondents have prevented the children of the appellants from attending their…