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NCLB's Transfer Policy and Court-Ordered Desegregation

The Conflict Between Two Federal Mandates in Richmond County, Georgia, and Pinellas County, Florida

Elizabeth H. DeBray-Pelot

University of Georgia

The present article, a cross-case analysis, analyzes one aspect of the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) that has generated conflict between the U.S. Department of Education and the federal court system. The conflicts arose between the courts' oversight of desegregation and the implementation of the public school choice mandates of NCLB in two south-eastern school systems, Richmond County, Georgia, and Pinellas County, Florida. The sources used are interviews by the author with each system's school superintendent and school board attorney, as well as official documents, including court orders and correspondence between county and federal officials. The conflicts not only raise constitutional legal issues but highlight the problem of local consent and bargaining in the implementation of federal education policy and illustrate the changing nature of federal authority with respect to desegregation. The two cases contribute to the knowledge base about the judicial implementation of federal education policies.

Key Words: federal education policy • public school choice • school desegregation

This version was published on November 1, 2007

Educational Policy, Vol. 21, No. 5, 717-746 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0895904806289220
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