Sorting out federal and state judicial roles in state institutional reform: abstention's potential role.
From: Fordham Urban Law Journal
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Date: 10/1/2001
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Author: Christensen, Robert K.; Wise, Charles R.
INTRODUCTION
The Kansas City School District will move vigorously to raise achievement
levels of its students after a federal judge dismissed what had become one
of the costliest desegregation cases ever, Superintendent Benjamin Demps
has vowed.
Demps hailed the decision Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple to
free the district from federal court supervision in a case that had dragged
on 22 years and cost the state $2 billion.
In dismissing ...
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