Keyes v. School District No. 1 Denver, CO. Conditional Cross Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
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IN THE Supreme Court of tfje ®totteb S>tateg October Term, 1971 No......... Wilfred Keyes, et al, Petitioners and Cross Respondents v. School D istrict No. 1, D enver, Colorado, et al, Respondents and Cross Petitioners CONDITIONAL CROSS PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE _____________ TENTH CIRCUIT William K. Ris Wood, Ris & Hames 1140 Denver Club Building Denver, Colorado Benjamin L. Craig Henry, Cockrell, Quinn & Creighton 1415 Security Life Building Denver, Colorado A ttorneys for Respondents and Cross Petitioners 44 B R A D F O R D P R I N T I N G , D E N V E R TABLE OF CONTENTS Page OPINIONS BELOW ...................................................... 1 JURISDICTION ............................................................ 2 QUESTIONS PRESENTED ......................................... 3 I. IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT WHICH HAS NEVER MAINTAINED A DUAL SYSTEM, DO THE ACTS OF A SCHOOL BOARD IN CONSTRUCT ING NEW FACILITIES AND MAKING MINOR BOUNDARY CHANGES TO ACCOMMODATE INCREASING NUMBERS OF CHILDREN MOVING INTO SCHOOL SUBDISTRICTS, ACCOMPANIED BY A CHANGE IN THE RA CIAL COMPOSITION OF THE AREA TO PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO, CONSTITUTE DE JURE SEGREGATION IN VIOLATION OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT, EVEN THOUGH SUCH ACTS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD, STANDING ALONE, COULD NOT HAVE CAUSED SUCH SCHOOLS TO BECOME PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO? II. IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT WHICH HAS NEVER MAINTAINED A DUAL SYSTEM, DOES THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRE IMPLEMENTA TION OF THE SCHOOL BOARD’S RESCINDED BUT UNEXECUTED PLANS FOR REDUCING MINORITY CONCENTRATIONS AND RA CIAL IMBALANCE IN EIGHT OF ITS ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN SCHOOLS WHERE THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE CONCLUDED THAT STATE ACTION CAUSED SEGREGA TION AT ONLY FOUR OF THE EIGHT 11 SCHOOLS AND THAT THREE OF THE RE MAINING FOUR WERE NOT SEGREGATED EITHER DE FACTO OR DE JURE? III. DOES THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A COURT APPROVED VOLUNTARY MAJORITY TO MINORITY TRANSFER PLAN WITH TRANS PORTATION PROVIDED, WHICH REDUCES THE CONCENTRATION OF NEGRO PUPILS IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND TO BE SEGREGATED BY STATE ACTION FROM 84.4% TO 58.4%, SATISFY THE CONSTITU- TIONAL REQUIREMENT TO REMEDY THE EFFECTS OF STATE IMPOSED SEGREGA TION? Page CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY PROVISIONS INVOLVED ................................... 3 STATEMENT OF THE CASE ................................... 3 REASONS FOR GRANTING THE W RIT................ 9 CONCLUSION .............................................................. 13 TABLE OF CASES Bell v. School City of Gary, Indiana, 324 F.2d 209 (7th Cir. 1963), cert. den. 377 U.S. 924 (1964) ........ 10 Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) .... 10 Deal v. Cincinnati Board of Education, 419 F.2d 1387 (6th Cir. 1969), cert. den. U.S____, 29 L.Ed. 2d 128 (1971) .............................................................. 10 Deal v. Cincinnati Board of Education, 369 F.2d 55 (6th Cir. 1966), cert. den. 389 U.S. 847 (1967) ........ 10 iii Downs v. Board of Education of Kansas City, 336 F.2d 988 (10th Cir. 1964), cert. den. 380 U.S. 914 (1965).. 10 Keyes v. School District Number One, Denver, Colorado, 313 F.Supp. 90 (1970) .................................2, 5 Keyes v. School District Number One, Denver, Colorado, 313 F.Supp. 61 (1970) ........................ 2, 4, 7, 8 Keyes v. School District Number One, Denver, Colorado, 303 F.Supp. 289 (1969) .................... ......2, 4, 8 Keyes v. School District Number One, Denver, Colorado, 303 F.Supp. 279 (1969) .............................2 ,4 Northcross v. Board of Education of Memphis, 397 U.S. 232 (1970) .................................................... 11 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971) ........................................... ..10, 11, 12 Taylor v. Board of Education of City School District of New Rochelle, 294 F.2d 36 (2nd Cir. 1961), cert. den. 368 U.S. 940 (1961) .................................................... 10 United States v. School District No. 151, Cook County, Illinois, 404 F.2d 1125 (7th Cir. 1968), cert. den. .___ U.S____,29L .Ed.2d 111 (1971)......................... 10 TABLE OF OTHER AUTHORITIES Title 28, U.S.C., Sec. 1254 (1) ........................... 2 IN THE Supreme Court of tfje Hrateb states. October T erm, 1971 No. Wilfred Keyes, et al., Petitioners and Cross Respondents v. School D istrict No. 1, D enver, Colorado, et al., Respondents and Cross Petitioners CONDITIONAL CROSS PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT Cross petitioners will file a brief in opposition to the peti tion for certiorari filed by petitioners, however, should the Court grant petitioners’ petition for certiorari to review the judgment and opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, entered on June 11, 1971, such re view should include the questions presented herein. OPINIONS BELOW The opinion of the Court of Appeals is reported at 445 F.2d 990, and appears in the Appendix to petitioners’ peti- 2 tion for writ of certiorari herein. The order of the Court of Appeals clarifying its June 11, 1971 opinion, issued on August 30, 1971, is printed in the Appendix to this condi tional cross petition. The opinions of the District Court for the District of Colorado are reported at 303 F. Supp. 279; 303 F. Supp. 289; 313 F. Supp. 61; and 313 F. Supp. 90, and appear in the Appendix to petitioners’ petition for writ of certiorari herein. JURISDICTION The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Cir cuit was entered on June 11, 1971, and no petition for re hearing was filed therein. On September 8, 1971, Mr. Justice Marshall ordered that the time for filing this petition be extended to and including October 25, 1971. This Court’s jurisdiction is invoked under 28 U.S.C. 1254(1). QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT WHICH HAS NEVER MAINTAINED A DUAL SYSTEM, DO THE ACTS OF A SCHOOL BOARD IN CONSTRUCTING NEW FACILITIES AND MAKING MINOR BOUNDARY CHANGES TO ACCOMMODATE INCREASING NUMBERS OF CHILDREN MOV ING INTO SCHOOL SUBDISTRICTS, ACCOM PANIED BY A CHANGE IN THE RACIAL COM POSITION OF THE AREA TO PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO, CONSTITUTE DE JURE SEGREGA TION IN VIOLATION OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT, EVEN THOUGH SUCH ACTS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD, STANDING ALONE, COULD NOT HAVE CAUSED SUCH SCHOOLS TO BECOME PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO? II. IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT WHICH HAS NEVER MAINTAINED A DUAL SYSTEM, DOES THE 3 CONSTITUTION REQUIRE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCHOOL BOARD’S RESCINDED BUT UNEXECUTED PLANS FOR REDUCING MI NORITY CONCENTRATIONS AND RACIAL IMBALANCE IN EIGHT OF ITS ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN SCHOOLS WHERE THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE CONCLUDED THAT STATE ACTION CAUSED SEGREGATION AT ONLY FOUR OF THE EIGHT SCHOOLS AND THAT THREE OF THE REMAINING FOUR WERE NOT SEGREGATED EITHER DE FACTO OR DE JURE? III. DOES THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A COURT APPROVED VOLUNTARY MAJORITY TO MI NORITY TRANSFER PLAN WITH TRANSPOR TATION PROVIDED, WHICH REDUCES THE CONCENTRATION OF NEGRO PUPILS IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND TO BE SEGRE GATED BY STATE ACTION FROM 84.4% TO 58.4%, SATISFY THE CONSTITUTIONAL RE QUIREMENT TO REMEDY THE EFFECTS OF STATE IMPOSED SEGREGATION? CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY PROVISIONS INVOLVED This case involves the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which is set out verbatim in petitioners’ petition. STATEMENT OF THE CASE This action was commenced in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado in June of 1969, by Anglo (white, excluding Spanish surnamed), Negro, and Hispano (Spanish surnamed) parents of children attending public schools in Denver, Colorado, suing individually, on 4 behalf of their minor children, and on behalf of classes of persons similarly situated, alleging violations of their con stitutional rights and seeking to remedy the alleged racial or ethnic segregation of certain of the Denver public schools. The complaint contained two separate causes of action. The first cause of action alleged racial segregation in cer tain of the schools of northeast Denver and prayed that re scission of three resolutions of the Board of Education num bered 1520, 1524, and 1531, providing for the stabilization of the racial and ethnic composition of pupil memberships in certain schools, be declared null and void and that the resolutions be reinstated and implemented. The second cause of action alleged racial segregation and a denial of equal educational opportunity in other public schools in Denver and prayed, inter alia, for an order desegregating these schools. The District Court granted a preliminary injunction or dering implementation of the three resolutions of the Board of Education, except as they affected East High School and Cole Junior High School, after preliminary hearing on the first cause of action. Keyes v. School District Number One, Denver, Colorado, 303 F. Supp. 279 (July 31, 1969). The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit re manded the case to the District Court for consideration of the effect of Section 407(a) of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the District Court issued an opinion containing Supple mental Findings, Conclusions and Temporary Injunction on August 14, 1969, which is reported at 303 F. Supp. 289. The entire case was tried on the merits in February of 1970, and the District Court issued a Memorandum Opin ion and Order on March 21, 1970, which is reported at 313 F. Supp. 61, and which reaffirmed the findings and conclu 5 sions of de jure segregation as to the first cause of action; found that the racial imbalance in the schools which were the subject of the second cause of action was not caused by state action but that the schools which were over 70% Negro or over 70% Hispano were not providing an equal educational opportunity. After further hearing the District Court issued a Decision re Plan or Remedy on May 21, 1970, which is reported at 313 F. Supp. 90. There was an appeal and cross-appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The opinion of the Court of Appeals was issued on June 11, 1971, and, in essence, affirmed the judgment of the District Court on the first cause of action and reversed it on the second cause of action. On August 30, 1971, the Court of Appeals issued its order clarifying its June 11, 1971 opinion requiring that immediate steps be taken to formulate and carry out a plan of desegregation for Hallett and Stedman Elementary Schools. The order of the District Court in compliance with this order was entered on September 28, 1971 and is printed in the appendix hereto. Another order of the District Court modifying this order was entered on October 15, 1971, and is also printed in the appendix hereto. This conditional cross petition seeks review of the judg ment of the Court of Appeals on the first cause of action only. Denver has never maintained separate educational facili ties for different races. Pupils in the Denver school system are assigned to schools on the basis of their residence. School attendance areas are established for each school based upon a so-called neighborhood school policy. The eight schools which were the subject of the Board’s three resolutions were: Barrett, Park Hill, Philips, Hallett and Stedman elementary schools; Cole and Smiley junior high 6 schools; and East High School. The four schools which were found to be segregated by prior actions of the Board were Barrett, Hallett and Stedman elementary schools and Smiley Junior High School. The trial court expressly found that Cole, although a predominantly minority school, was not made so by state action. It also found that Park Hill and Philips elementary schools and East High School were not segregated schools either de jure or de facto. Prior to the end of World War II all these schools were predominantly white. Shortly after World War II, the small Negro population of Denver which was concentrated in the north central area of the City began to increase and move into white residential areas to the east. In addition to changing the racial composition of the public schools in its path, this migration caused overcrowding in those schools because families were larger. This condition re quired school authorities to construct additional facilities, both temporary and permanent, and to adjust attendance boundaries of certain schools in order to accommodate in creasing numbers of school children. The trial court found and concluded from the evidence that the circumstances surrounding the construction of Bar rett Elementary School in 1959 and 1960 evidenced pur poseful action on the part of the Board of Education to cre ate a predominantly Negro school. It also found from the evidence that minor changes in 1962 and 1964 in the east erly and southerly subdistrict boundaries of Stedman and Hallett elementary schools resulted in moving some of the white pupils out of these schools at the same time that the eastward Negro migration engulfed them and concluded that these were acts of segregation which caused these two schools to become segregated. The findings and conclusions as to Smiley Junior High School are even more tenuous. No boundaries had been changed during the Negro migration 7 and the school had been constructed prior to the Negro migration. Yet, the trial court found that because of the racial composition of the student body and faculty, the racial composition of the Smiley feeders (which included Stedman and Hallett, but not Barrett), and the Negro population movement into the area, Smiley was a segre- grated school in 1968; that the resolutions of the Board passed in 1969, to take effect that fall, were designed to reduce the Negro percentages; and that in the absence of the resolutions, the Negro percentages would increase as a re sult of future Negro population movement. The trial court’s finding of de jure segregation at Cole Junior High School was based entirely on rescission of the Board’s resolution: “The rescission of Resolution 1524 as applied to Cole Junior High was an action taken which had the effect of frustrating an effort at Cole which at least constituted a start toward ultimate improve ment in the quality of educational effort there.” 313 F. Supp. 61, 67. . . [T]he segregation (or racial concentration) which presently exists at Manual and Cole, except insofar as Cole was affected by Resolution 1524 and its rescission as explained above in part I, is not de jure.” Id. at 75. The trial court expressly found from the uncontroverted evidence that Park Hill, Philips and East were not even segregated. “Thus, even though Philips and Park Hill were not segregated as of 1969, the Board felt that effective desegregation could take place at Bar- 8 rett, Stedman, and Hallett only if other Park Hill area schools were included in a total plan.” 303 F. Supp. 289, 292. “Neither before nor after the passage of 1520 could East be considered a segregated school.” Id. at 294. Because there was no evidence of de jure segregation at East and Cole, the preliminary injunction mandating the three resolutions expressly omitted East and Cole (303 F. Supp. 289, 296), although the order included Park Hill and Philips because they were deemed necessary to the relief of the other Park Hill schools. Later, after the trial on the merits, the trial court rested its ruling that the resolutions should be implemented as to East and Cole on the conclusion of law that the recission of the resolutions was the operative act of de jure segregation and therefore unconstitutional. 313 F. Supp. 61. The Court of Appeals, in its treatment of this portion of the case, reviewed the trial court’s findings of acts of de jure segregation as to Barrett, Stedman, Hallett and Smiley (as to Smiley, it omitted the feeder theory and substituted a ref erence to the permitting of whites to transfer out of Smiley, although the trial court made no such finding in this re gard), and applying Rule 52, F.R.Civ.P., concluded that these findings were not clearly erroneous and affirmed them. Then, on Page 23 of its opinion, the Court of Appeals concluded: “Since we have sustained the findings regarding state imposed segregation in the Park Hill area schools, it is unnecessary to futher decide whether the rescission of Resolutions 1520, 1524 and 1531 was also an act of de jure segregation.” 9 Yet rescission was the basis and the only basis for imple menting the rescinded resolutions as to Park Hill, Philips, Cole and East. Thus, the opinion of the Court of Appeals, provides no legal basis for the remedy (reinstatement of the resolutions) as to Park Hill, Philips, Cole and East. Prior to the commencement of this action and in the fall of 1968, the Board of Education instituted a voluntary open enrollment policy (V.O.E.) which permitted majority to minority transfers with transportation provided whenever such transfers improved integration. It decided to employ this policy in the Hallett demonstration integrated school plan which was contained in rescinded Resolution 1531 and in Resolution 1533 which replaced the rescinded resolutions. As a result of the operation of this plan during 1969 and 1970, the Negro enrollment at Hallett Elementary School was reduced from 84.4% in 1968 to 58.4% in the fall of 1970, 12 percentage points below what the trial court viewed as a segregated school. Yet in the fall of 1971, both the Court of Appeals and the District Court ordered addi tional mandatory reduction in the Negro population at Hallett. REASONS FOR GRANTING THE WRIT Cross petitioners intend that this Conditional Cross Petition be considered only in the event this Court deter mines to grant the petition of petitioners. While cross peti tioners do not agree with petitioners’ reasons for granting the writ, they do urge that if this Court determines that it will review this case, it should review the entire case and resolve all questions therein. The questions raised by the decisions of the lower federal courts on the first cause of action in this case are important 10 constitutional questions which have not been decided by this Court. Since Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), this Court has taken and decided many cases in volving formerly dual school systems and while questions continue to arise in these jurisdictions which need to be set tled by this Court, many cases are now working their way up the federal court system from jurisdictions which have never maintained dual school systems. This Court has denied certiorari in the northern and western cases presented to it up to this time. Taylor v. Board of Education of City School District of New Rochelle, 294 F.2d 36 (2nd Cir. 1961), cert. den. 368 U.S. 940 (1961); Deal v. Cincinnati Board of Education, 369 F.2d 55 (6th Cir. 1966), cert. den. 389 U.S. 847 (1967); Deal v. Cin cinnati Board of Education, 419 F.2d 1387 (6th Cir. 1969), cert, den____U.S____, 29 L.Ed. 2d 128 (1971); Bell v. School City of Gary, Indiana, 324 F.2d 209 (7th Cir. 1963),cert. den. 377 U.S. 924 (1964); Downs v. Board of Education of Kansas City, 336 F.2d 988 (10th Cir. 1964), cert. den. 380 U.S. 914 (1965); and United States v. School District No. 151, Cook County, Illinois, 404 F,2d 1125 (7th Cir. 1968), cert, den____U.S____, 29 L.Ed. 2d 111 (1971). When Brown and its companion cases were decided in 1954, the word went out very clearly. Dual systems are for bidden by the Constitution. No such clear guidance exists as to what the Constitution requires of boards of education which have never operated dual systems but are faced with racially imbalanced schools and population shifts which cause the racial composition of schools to change. In Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971), this Court answered one of the ques tions suggested by the Chief Justice in his separate opinion II in Northcross v. Board of Education of Memphis, 397 U.S. 232 (1970), when it stated: “The constitutional command to desegregate schools does not mean that every school in every community must always reflect the racial compo sition of the school system as a whole.” 402 U.S. at 24. This statement of the law would seem to apply with equal force to systems which have never maintained racially sepa rate schools. Other language in Swann, although intended to apply to dual system cases, should apply with equal force to systems which have always been unitary: “At some point, these school authorities and others like them should have achieved full com pliance with this Court’s decision in Brown I. The systems will then be ‘unitary’ in the sense required by our decisions in Green and Alexander. “It does not follow that the communities served by such systems will remain demographically sta ble, for in a growing, mobile society, few will do so. Neither school authorities nor district courts are constitutionally required to make year-by- year adjustments of the racial composition of stu dent bodies once the affirmative duty to desegre gate has been accomplished and racial discrimi nation through official action is eliminated from the system. This does not mean that federal courts are without power to deal with future problems ; but in the absence of a showing that ei ther the school authorities or some other agency of the State has deliberately attempted to fix or 12 alter demographic patterns to affect the racial composition of the schools, further intervention by a district court should not be necessary.” 402 U.S. at 31-32. It thus appears that once a dual system has been desegre gated, it is on the same footing with a school district which has never operated a dual system. Both are unitary systems and neither has a constitutional duty to make periodic ad justments of the racial composition of student bodies even though population shifts occur. Yet, school districts are free, in the exercise of discretionary educational policy, to at tempt to alter racial imbalance without violating the Consti tution: “School authorities are traditionally charged with broad power to formulate and implement ed ucational policy and might well conclude, for ex ample, that in order to prepare students to live in a pluralistic society each school should have a prescribed ratio of Negro to white students re flecting the proportion for the district as a whole. To do this as an educational policy is within the broad discretionary powers of school authorities; absent a finding of a constitutional violation, however, that would not be within the authority of a federal court.” 402 U.S. at 16. If these actions are truly within the discretion of local school authorities, they may be reversed, rescinded or re placed with other and different policy actions without vio lating the Constitution. To the extent the courts below have invaded this area of governmental action reserved to the local school board, their actions are in conflict with the decision of this Court and their decisions should be reviewed by it. 13 The decisions of the courts below on the first cause of ac tion in this case usurp the discretionary power of the school authorities at the very least as to four of the eight schools in volved and the effect of their holdings is that school boards have a constitutional duty to foresee and remedy the effects of demographic mobility contrary to the decision of this Court in Swann. For these and the foregoing reasons, cross petitioners respectfully request that this Court grant their cross petition if it grants the petitioners’ petition. Respectfully submitted, William K. Ris Wood, Ris & Hames 1140 Denver Club Building Denver, Colorado Benjamin L. Craig Henry, Cockrell, Quinn & Creighton 1415 Security Life Building Denver, Colorado C O N C L U SIO N Attorneys for Respondent and Cross Petitioners A-l APPENDIX JULY TERM—AUGUST 30, 1971 Before Honorable John C. Pickett, Honorable Delmas C. Hill and Honorable Oliver Seth, Circuit Judges Wilfred Keyes, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-A ppellees, v. School D istrict Number One , Denver, Colorado, et al., Defendants, Appellants, AND M r . and M rs. Douglas Barnett, etc., et al., Intervening Defendants. Appellees-plaintiffs in the captioned appeal have filed what they denominate as a “Motion For Clarification Of Opinion.” As pointed out in that motion, both the Trial Court and this Court have determined the Hallett and Sted- man schools to be de jure segregated schools. Under author ity of our opinion, immediate steps should be taken to formu late and carry out a plan of desegregation for such schools. We do not deem this action to be a proper function of an Appellate Court. The authority of the Trial Court to hear these matters and to determine the proper relief to be granted is clearly set out in the last sentence of our opinion. Nos. 336-70 • and 337-70 A true copy Teste A-2 / s/ Howard K. Phillips HOWARD K. PHILLIPS Clerk Howard K. Phillips Clerk, U. S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit By / s/ Anne Cabot Deputy Clerk A-3 A P P E N D IX IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. C-1499 Wilfred Keyes, et al., vs. School D istrict N o. 1, D enver, Colorado, et al D THIS MATTER coming on for hearing on September 8, 1971, in compliance with the Order of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit dated August 30, 1971, stating that immediate steps should be taken to formulate and carry out a plan for the disestablishment of de jure segregation at Hal- lett and Stedman Elementary Schools, the Court, having heard the evidence and the statements of counsel, finds as follows: 1. That the constitutional rights of the minority school children attending these de jure segregated schools should be restored as quickly as is practicable under the circumstances. 2. That no just cause exists for delaying the disestablish ment of de jure segregation at Hallett and Stedman Elementary Schools beyond Monday, November 8, 1971; the school district already having in existence plans for such disestablishment. Plaintiffs, order re desegre gation OF HALLETT AND STEDMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS efendants. A-4 3. That the school district requires some time to allow for making adjustments in the plan as selected by the Court, to ensure that the desegregation called for herein is effective, and further, needs some additional time for the preparation of the schools affected, the teachers, staff, pupils and parents, for the implemen tation of the plan. 4. That “Plan A” as proposed by the school administra tion in its Report of June 8, 1970, and as it relates to the desegregation of Hallett and Stedman shall be implemented by the defendants, amended to the ex tent necessary to carry out this Court’s Order, set forth below. WHEREFORE, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED as follows: A. That the disestablishment of de jure segregation at Hallett and Stedman Elementary Schools shall be accom plished no later than Monday, November 8, 1971*; as a minimum the implementation will in fact create the racial compositions at all affected schools projected in the June 8, 1970 Report under Plan A; B. That on or before Friday, October 8, 1971, the defendants shall present to the Court and the community the details of the plan to be implemented on November 8, 1971, including the resulting racial compositions at the affected schools; C. The defendants shall conduct a racial and ethnic census of the students in the geographic areas designated *The School District is, of course, free to implement this order at an earlier date if it is ready to implement it and if it believes that disruption would be minimized thereby. A-5 under Plan A relating to desegregation of Hallett and Sted- man, including the areas in Montbello to be assigned to those schools; such census shall be completed prior to pre sentation of the plan on October 8,1971; D. Prior to Friday, October 8, 1971, the defendants shall make any adjustments in geographic areas under Plan A required to ensure the racial compositions under the Plan, and shall incorporate such changes together with any neces sary changes in receiving schools into the Plan prior to presentation on October 8, 1971. E. Prior to Friday, October 8, 1971, the defendants shall have included in the Plan provisions for: 1. Facuity and staff assignments; 2. Transportation of children affected by the plan and the specific details thereof shall be finalized no later than Friday, October 22, 1971. 3. Programs for the training of teachers in the affected schools with regard to minority history and culture and how to effectively teach in an integrated environ ment. 4. Provisions for orientation programs at the new schools, parent-faculty conferences, open houses and other means for promoting familiarity with the new school, understanding of the Plan and affording those affected an opportunity to have questions answered concerning the Plan. 5. Any required changes in the curriculum, and the specific details thereof shall be finalized no later than Friday, October 22, 1971. 6. Compensatory or remedial educational programs shall continue to be provided in the new schools after implementation for those children previously enrolled in such programs. A-6 F. The Superintendent or his designee may make indi vidual adjustments for particular students affected by any of the Orders of this Court in this Action in cases of hard ship, or for other valid, equitable reasons where it is de termined by the Superintendent or his designee that valid reasons exist and that the adjustment is not for the purpose of avoiding this Court’s Orders. A record of each such ad justment, including the reason or reasons therefor shall be maintained. G. Those students now participating in the Hallett Plan shall continue; those students now being transported to re lieve overcrowding at Hallett and Stedman shall continue in the schools to which they are presently assigned. H. The Plan shall provide for the transportation of all students affected, said transportation to be provided by the School District without cost to the student. I. Any changes in Plan A believed necessary by defend ants to carry out this Order shall be described and presented to Counsel for plaintiffs at least five days prior to presenta tion to the Court on October 8,1971. J. Decision on plaintiffs’ request for the appointment of a lay advisory committee is deferred for the present. DATED this 27th day of September, 1971. BY THE COURT / s/ William E. Doyle William E. Doyle, Judge APPROVED AS TO FORM: Wood, Ris & Hames By_________ ___________________ _ William K. Ris H enry, Cockrell, Quinn & Creighton By-------- --------------- ------ ------- . Benjamin L. Craig Attorneys for Defendants / s/ Gordon G. Greiner Gordon G. Greiner Attorney for Plaintiffs ENTERED ON THE DOCKET SEP. 28, 1971 G. WALTER BOWMAN CLERK BY: S.H. DEP. CLERK A-7 A P P E N D IX IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. C-1499 W ilfred Keyes, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. School D istrict No. 1, Denver, Colorado, et al. Defendants. ORDER THIS MATTER coming on upon the stipulation of the parties, and the Court having examined the Stipulation and the file herein and being otherwise fully advised in the premises DOTH ORDER: 1. That the previous Order re: Desegregation of Hallett and Stedman Elementary Schools entered on September 28, 1971, following hearing on September 8, 1971, be, and the same is hereby modified as follows: (a) The effective date for the implementation of plans to desegregate Hallett and Stedman Elementary Schools is hereby established as the beginning of the second semester of the 1971-1972 school year rather than November 8, 1971, as provided in said order. (b) “Plan A” as modified in the Hallett-Stedman Plan, attached to the Stipulation of the parties as Exhibit A, be and the same is hereby approved for implementation at the beginning of the second semester of the 1971-1972 school year. (c) The specific details of “Plan A” as modified in the Hallett-Stedman Plan shall be developed no later than De cember 1,1971. DATED this 15th day of October, 1971. BY THE COURT: /s/ William E. Doyle William E. Doyle, Judge APPROVED AS TO FORM: / s/ Gordon G. Greiner_____ Gordon G. Greiner H enry, C ockrell, Quinn & Creighton Is/ Michael H. Jackson A ttorneys for Defendants