U.S. TO PROBE SEGREGATION AT SCHOOL

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, January 22, 1993                   TAG: 9301220108
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short
U.S. TO PROBE SEGREGATION AT SCHOOL
Federal authorities will decide whether the Richmond school system violated the Civil Rights Act when black and white pupils were segregated at an elementary school.
Superintendent Lucille M. Brown said Wednesday she was notified last week that the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights will determine whether the district violated the 1964 law.
Last month, a parent complained that pupils were being segregated by race at Bellevue Elementary School.
The school's principal said she put all the white children in each grade level in the same class for social and emotional reasons, as allowed by School Board policy. White pupils make up 12 percent of Bellevue's student body.
The board said the principal misinterpreted the policy, and ordered the practice stopped.
- Associated Press

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB