District Court, W.D. Washington April 6, 2001, C00-1205R (Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1)

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

ROTHSTEIN, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

For over thirty years the Seattle School District has made efforts to ameliorate the often pernicious consequences of the racial isolation in its schools that would, but for those efforts, track the racial segregation of the city’s housing patterns.