A Louisville teacher is suing Jefferson County Public Schools, saying the district's practice of dispersing black teachers among its schools amounts to discrimination.
Laukhuf Elementary teacher Lorraine D. Hill filed suit yesterday in U.S. District Court in Louisville, saying she was denied interviews and a transfer to Cane Run or Wellington elementary schools that were closer to her home because they already had too many black teachers.
She is contesting the district's use of the so-called "Singleton Ratio," named after a 1960s desegregation case. The ratio requires that the percentage of black teachers within a school remain within 5 percentage points of the overall average for elementary, middle or high schools.
In Jefferson County, that means holding most schools' percentage of black teachers between 6.8 and 21.9 percent, depending on the grade level.
Nearly 15 percent of Jefferson County Public Schools' 6,168 teachers are black. Roughly 35 percent of the students are black.
The district's practice of distributing black teachers dates to the 1970s, when it was part of court-ordered desegregation...
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Meanwhile - Ted Gordon, the Louisville attorney who represents Hill and who helped overturn Jefferson County Public Schools' student-integration policy, is asking a federal judge to order the district to pay him $750,000 in fees and bonuses.
...This too from the Courier-Journal.
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