![]() Uvalde is a fairly old town by South Texas standards, the School District having been originally organized in 1907. The four elementary schools are located basically within the four quadrants of the town, roughly equidistant from the center of town defined by the intersection of those highways. The intersection of those two main thoroughfares is located at the approximate center of the town. Highway 90 running in a generally east-west direction and State Highway 55 running in a generally north-south direction. The City of Uvalde is divided roughly into four quadrants by U.S. The School District has a total scholastic enrollment of approximately 3,853 students of whom 61% are Mexican-American, 38.6% are Anglo and. It operates one (1) high school, one (1) junior high school, four (4) elementary schools and a location for kindergarten students. The Uvalde Independent School District includes within its boundaries all of the area of the town of Uvalde, Texas, as well as a substantial area surrounding the town, which has been generally referred to as the rural portion of the School District. The essence of the plaintiff's Complaint is that Mexican-American students are, by the attendance zoning plan of the School District, partially segregated from their Anglo counterparts at the elementary grade level that the English language deficiencies of the Mexican-American elementary school students have not been adequately dealt with by the School District and finally, that the School District has discriminated against Mexican-American applicants for faculty and administrative positions by its failure to employ them in greater numbers. A few weeks prior to the trial of this case, a hearing was held in those proceedings, and the parties here have, by agreement, submitted to the Court as part of the record in this trial the voluminous transcript of those proceedings which has been carefully reviewed together with the other evidence presented at this trial. Subsequent to the filing of this suit, an administrative proceeding was instituted against the School District by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare seeking to terminate all federal financial assistance to the District. She seeks equitable relief, apparently by way of a remedial decree calling for what is commonly known as a "desegregation plan", money damages and attorneys' fees. The plaintiff claims that the Mexican-American elementary school pupils in the School District have been and are presently subjected to discrimination in the educational process *816 and are thereby being denied an equal educational opportunity in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This action is brought by a Mexican-American parent residing in the Uvalde Independent School District ("School District") as a class action on behalf of her children and all of the other Mexican-American school children enrolled in elementary schools in the School District. Grant Cook, Reynolds, White, Allen & Cook, Houston, Tex., for defendants. *814 *815 Pat Maloney, San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiffs. SHANNON, Individually and as Principal of Robb Elementary School, Uvalde County, Texas, et al. ![]() Geneoveva MORALES, as next friend of Daniel Morales, a minor, et al.Į.
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