{"id":2116,"date":"2015-11-06T22:42:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T04:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emidfamilies.org\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2015-11-06T22:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T04:42:46","slug":"attorneys-are-asking-for-a-metro-wide-integration-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/archives\/2116","title":{"rendered":"Attorneys are asking for a metro-wide integration plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Lonetree reports in the Star Tribune that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lawsuit-claims-minnesota-fails-to-educate-poor-minority-students-in-mpls-st-paul\/340843751\/\">Lawsuit claims Minnesota fails to educate poor, minority students in Minneapolis, St. Paul<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the complaint, as more families of color have moved to the suburbs, particularly inner-ring suburbs, the state has permitted the drawing of boundaries that \u201cdeliberately increased segregation.\u201d Hopkins, Bloomington, Burnsville, Osseo and North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale were among the examples.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Civil rights lawyer Dan Shulman, who shepherded the NAACP suit that birthed EMID in the 1990s, filed this suit with his son, John Shulman.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are going to ensure that the Twin Cities become a national leader in educating children in the Twin Cities, and not as we are today, an absolute failure nationally \u2014 with one of the largest so-called learning gaps in the country,\u201d John Shulman said at a news conference Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Lonetree reports in the Star Tribune that &#8220;Lawsuit claims Minnesota fails to educate poor, minority students in Minneapolis, St. Paul.&#8221; According to the complaint, as more families of color have moved to the suburbs, particularly inner-ring suburbs, the state has permitted the drawing of boundaries that \u201cdeliberately increased segregation.\u201d Hopkins, Bloomington, Burnsville, Osseo and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/emidfamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}