"We have done everything we can possibly do," he said.Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. School board chairman Bob Willis said he hopes Bowen will see that the schools have no racist intent in the transfer policy. of the Southern District of Georgia will decide the case. A hearing is expected sometime next year.
"I think what the Justice Department is doing can be positive, because it makes you look at what you are doing," said school board member Sandra Scott. "Why they would pick the poor city of Dublin to come down and jump on is beyond any of us." Not everyone is so critical of the federal intervention. "Most parents are not going to have the federal government dictate where their children go to school," he said. He predicted dire consequences should the Justice Department win the case. He said the complaint amounts to the federal government attempting to micromanage a small school system without fully understanding the situation. "It would be a mess, and I don't think it would help either school financially, or the families involved." Lee Parks, an Atlanta attorney representing the county in the case, has worked on similar cases throughout the country. County schools Superintendent Larry Daniel said that if transfers were restricted, the result would be that black/white ratios in both systems would not change much, and a large problem would be created by students who have to switch schools. School officials call the lawsuit a waste of time and baseless. Justice Department officials would not comment on the Dublin case. "I know some who have already done that," she told The Macon Telegraph.
If she were barred from doing that, she said she might move out of Dublin. Dublin resident Gayle Stinson pays the fee to send her son to a county school. They're now charged $300 a year to go to schools outside their home district, but the practice continues. For years city students were allowed to transfer at will. The Justice Department alleges that allowing students living in the city to transfer to the county schools is contributing to an increasing racial disparity in the city schools. The Laurens County school system was 65 percent white. In the past school year, the ratio at Dublin city schools was 72 percent black and 24 percent white. After the city schools finally desegregated in 1971, the student population was 57 percent white and 43 percent black. Dublin school officials insist they've done nothing wrong and that if the transfer policy is rescinded, residents will simply move out of the city to get into a county school district. Justice Department calls a re-segregation of schools. DUBLIN, GA (AP) - Fifty years after first being ordered to desegregate schools, the city of Dublin is facing a federal lawsuit for allowing city residents to send their children to county schools, causing what the U.S.
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