Judge Rejects School Racial Diversity Rules for Minnesota

The Minnesota Department of Education is expected to reconsider new rules on integrating schools after an administrative law judge rejected the departments initial plan. 

According to Minneapolis Public Radio News, Judge Ann O’Reilly rejected the department’s attempt to include publicly financed charter schools under the integration rules that apply to traditional school systems.  She wrote in her ruling that the department didn’t explain its changes well enough and wasn’t clear on how integration plans would be evaluated. 

The plan would have required schools to implement programs and activities to boost integration, but it didn’t specify the consequences if a school failed to integrate. 

The proposed rules would have replaced existing rules that give schools specific suggestions for increasing racial diversity.