TISD Votes to Pursue Lifting Desegregation Order
Posted/updated on: May 21, 2016 at 5:48 pm
TYLER — The Tyler ISD school board voted Thursday night to seek lifting a more than 40 year old federal desegregation order. According to KETK, the district is seeking unitary status, which is achieved when no racial discrimination involving faculty, staff, student assignment, facilities transportation and extracurricular activities exists in the district. The Board of Trustees voted 7-0 in favor of lifting the order. The motion will now move to the federal government.
Meanwhile, opposition still looms. Members of the Tyler-Smith County NAACP voiced their concerns of making a change during community input. If the order is lifted, school officials said it will give the district more flexibility. The order has been in place since July 27, 1970.
