Liddell ex rel. Liddell v. Board of Education

HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

In 1980 this court in an en banc opinion ordered that existing magnet and specialty schools in the St. Louis School District be maintained and that additional magnet schools be established.1 In 1982 we became more precise and required that additional magnet schools be established at the State’s expense within the city.2

Ten years ago this court in an en banc opinion established an enrollment goal of 14,-000 students for the magnet schools in the St. Louis School District.3 We subsequently stated that this goal was to be achieved no later than the 1989-90 school…