Lawsuits could boost school board diversity

06-30-2011

By Corey G. Johnson/California Watch

Civil rights attorneys are using a California election law to force school districts to make their boards more diverse. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, a San Francisco-based advocacy group, has been aggressively seeking city and district compliance with the California Voting Rights Act, a 2002 law that makes it illegal to disenfranchise minority groups from the electoral process. The act allows lawsuits to be filed against districts that elect governing boards through "at-large" elections if those elections prevented minority voters from influencing the outcome. The law stems from claims that "at-large" elections allowed non-minority voting blocs to dominate the process. (more...)

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