PARENTS IN ACTION ON SPECIAL ED. (PASE) v. HANNON

No. 74 C 3586.

506 F.Supp. 831 (1980)

PARENTS IN ACTION ON SPECIAL EDUCATION (PASE), an incorporated association; Lue B. B., on her own behalf and as next friend of Barbara B.; and Onollie J., on her own behalf and as next friend of Angela J., on behalf of themselves and all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Joseph P. HANNON, Individually, and in his capacity as General Superintendent of Schools in Chicago; Elberta Pruitt, Individually and in her capacity as Director of Special Education for the Chicago Board of Education; Louise G. Daugherty, Individually and in her official capacity as Director of Pupil Personnel Services for the Chicago Board of Education; William Canning, Individually and in his capacity as Director of the Bureau of Child Study for the Chicago Board of Education; the Chicago Board of Education, a body corporate and politic; John D. Carey, Dr. Edgar G. Epps, Dr. Bernard S. Friedman, Herbert E. Johnson, Henry W. McGee, Mrs. Louis A. Malis, Thomas J. Nayder, Patricia O'Hern, Carey B. Preston, Mrs. William L. Rother, Gerald L. Searboro, Carmen Velasquez, and Mrs. Lydon Wild, Individually and in their official capacity as past or present members of the Chicago Board of Education; Joseph Cronin, Individually and in his capacity as Superintendent of the Illinois Office of Education; the Illinois State Board of Education, a body corporate and politic; and the Illinois Office of Education, the State Educational Agency of Illinois, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

July 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace C. Winter, Legal Advocacy Service, David A. Goldberger, American Civil Liberties Union, Linda Lipton, Better Government Ass'n, James L. Pittman, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Michael J. Murray, Patricia J. Whitten and Christine Cheatom, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM DECISION

GRADY, District Judge.

This case presents the question whether standard intelligence tests administered by the Chicago Board of Education are culturally biased against black children. The action is brought on behalf of all black children who have been or will be placed in special classes for the educable mentally handicapped ("EMH") in the Chicago school system. The defendants are the Chicago Board of Education and its officers responsible...

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