Adams & United States v.

Matthews (Longview Independent School District)

This desegregation case involves the Longview Independent School District ("LISD") in
Longview, Texas, which was ordered by the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to
desegregate on August 27, 1970. On January 24, 2011, as part of a district-wide consolidation
plan, the court approved a consent order adopting LISD's revised attendance zones.

On February 28, 2014, the court declared that LISD was partially unitary and had eliminated all
vestiges of past de jure discrimination to the extent practicable in its facilities, transportation,
extracurricular activities, and staff assignment. Following a comprehensive review of the school
district's policies and practices, and subsequent negotiations, on December 22, 2014, the court
approved the parties' proposed consent order. The Section is monitoring the district's compliance
with this consent order, which requires LISD to publicize and broadly disseminate the
application and assessment procedures it uses to admit students to the Hudson PEP Elementary
School magnet program; permit and facilitate majority-to-minority transfers between certain
schools; provide equal access to pre-advanced placement courses at its middle schools; and
publicize and broadly disseminate its gifted-and-talented program admission procedures.