JCPS asks Kentucky high court to review student assignment ruling

This from the Courier-Journal:

Nearly a month after a Kentucky Appeals Court struck down Jefferson County Public Schools student assignment plan, the district on Thursday asked the state Supreme Court to take up the case.

Making good on its vow to appeal, the district argued in a motion for review that the appeals court’s ruling was flawed. Its appeal asks the high court to decide a “critically important question that will determine the assignment of students to every public school in the Commonwealth.”
On Sept. 30, a three-judge panel of the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to strike down Jefferson County's new assignment plan. The judges ruled that state law guarantees students the right to attend their nearest school, and they ordered the district to redesign its plan for the 2012-13 school year.

The high court could take six months to a year to decide whether to take the case, said Byron Leet, one of the district’s lawyers. Leet had argued that such a guarantee is a misreading of state law and threatens to increase school segregation...