Legal Opinion
People Who Care v. Rockford Board of Education School District No. 205, and Rockford Education Association, Intervenors-Appellants
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 22, 1992No. 91-2438PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Pupils, parents, and civic associations filed this suit seeking desegregation of the public schools in Rockford, the second-largest city in Illinois. The district court certified a class of all black or Hispanic pupils in the district, plus all other children attending racially identifiable schools there.
Figures compiled for litigation during the 1970s showed that although minorities made up approximately 15% of the pupils in Rockford’s schools, several elementary schools had more than 70% minority enrollment and one had more than 90%. The school district adopted a…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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3Cited by52 opinions
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