HB1003 of the special session: Extending a deadline in the desegregation litigation

HB1003 was filed this afternoon, and it extends a deadline involving the Pulaski schools' desegregation litigation from June to December. Specifically, Act 395 of 2007 required school districts to meet a reimbursement benchmark by being declared unitary or at least partially unitary by Judge Bill Wilson's federal district court no later than June 14, 2008 (see text beginning on p. 4, line 15 of Act 395). That date is no longer feasible, and we'll extend that to December 31. It has been assigned to the Education committee.