Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2012. The Justice Department announced today that it reached an out-of-court agreement with the Escambia County School District in Alabama to end the use of race-based selection criteria for homecoming courts and other student activities in two of the district’s high schools.
In response to the department’s inquiry earlier this year, the district indicated that two of its high schools considered race in certain student elections. Escambia County High School permitted…
