The Ferguson-Florissant School District in Missouri is being sued by the ACLU. The lawsuit claims that the voting system that they use to elect school board members undercuts the black votes severely so that the black voices are not heard during school board meetings. Over 75% of the students that attend the schools in this district are black but there is only one board member out of seven who is not white. The district uses an at-large voting system for picking its board members which the ACLU says leaves black voters underrepresented.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:39:10 +0000
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