UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY, Defendant, La Vega Independent School District, Defendant-Appellee

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

The Supreme Court’s decision in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 1969, 396 U.S. 19, 90 S.Ct. 29, 24 L.Ed.2d 19, abandoned the doctrine of “all deliberate speed” in school desegregation suits. Sitting en banc, this Court implemented Alexander’s mandate that formerly dual school systems begin immediately to operate as unitary ones. Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District, 1970, 419 F.2d 1211, cert. denied 1970, 396 U.S. 1032, 90 S.Ct. 612, 24 L.Ed.2d 530.

Singleton prescribed detailed procedures and standards for the expeditious elimination of…