Seattle school tensions boil over

The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports:

District officials have reiterated that the district's demographics are roughly 40 percent white and 60 percent students of color -- meaning that regardless of which schools were chosen for closure, a large number of minority students would be affected.

But opponents don't buy that reasoning, and have filed two lawsuits in King County Superior Court, challenging closures.

The district "says it values diversity, but it's shackling the underprivileged to less resources. We have seen this generation after generation, and we are sick and tired of it," Remmu said. "The numbers don't lie, and the numbers show clearly disproportionality in races. We're talking about a civil-rights issue."

Tension in Blue City America.