31.   They fear that if the state prevails it could jeopardize educational quality programs in hundreds of desegregation cases.

32.   This is the third time the desegregation case has been before the court but the first time it has looked at aspects of the remedy.

33.   Whipple is overseeing the long-running desegregation case against the district.

34.   Sachs even cited Brown vs. Board of Education, a landmark U.S. desegregation case, in noting that the issues before him were about much more than teaching children.