LOUISVILLE Ky.
An attorney who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that
rejected the use of race in assigning students to Louisville schools asked a
judge on Thursday to allow about 2,800 students to change schools immediately.
Teddy B. Gordon’s motion also asked U.S. District Judge John
Heyburn II to put the school district’s superintendent and members of his
administration in jail if they do not go along with the request.
The court filing comes less than a month before the
scheduled Aug. 22 start of classes in Jefferson County Public Schools. No hearing
date has been set in the case. Gordon wants a hearing within 10 days.
Gordon said reopening enrollment at the schools shouldn’t
cause a problem. When court-ordered busing went into effect in 1975, it was
implemented in 25 days, despite protests, Gordon said.
“It’s not that hard,” Gordon said.
Jefferson County schools attorney Byron Leet said the
motions have “no merit” and said the board will respond to the
request that the school superintendent be jailed.
