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Minneapolis NAACP Parent Info Centers
8 January 2002 Bill Green's term as a member of the Minneapolis School Board is over. In an interview published in City Pages, Green noted that the state had agreed to earmark $5 million for metro-area desegregation as part of the settlement of the NAACP lawsuit, but the legislature took that money out of the budget during the 2001 session, and the NAACP had nothing to say about that. The settlement agreement also stipulated that the NAACP may never sue the state and local school boards which are parties to the agreement, but there is an escape clause: If the state violates the agreement, the NAACP could take steps to recover its right to sue.
by Doug Mann, 28 March 2005 (also posted at mpls issues list)
Archives - The Minneapolis NAACP branch officers illegally opened two parent information centers August 16, 2003. By a two-thirds majority the branch membership voted to kill the project on June 28, 2003, before the national office gave conditional approval for the parent information centers project. One of the conditions was ratification of a hiring policy by the branch membership (which didn't happen). The Parent information center are currently being run by "consultants," including a lawyer. (October 11, 2003)
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