Submitted by: Myke
Clark County school board's
proposed redistricting plan likely
violates the Voting Rights Act
Trustees trying to dilute the
influence of Latino voters, parents
By Alexander Cooper
As the Clark County School District board meeting drew to a close on Wednesday, June 1, José Solorio walked to the podium and said that he is "very concerned with the path we're going down," a path which may limit Latino community representation on the school board.
The Clark County school board trustees each represent one of seven smaller districts. For weeks, CCSD trustees have been debating various proposals to redraw the boundaries of those seven districts to reflect population changesidentified by the 2010 census. By the meeting on Wednesday, at least nine proposals, or "scenarios," had been presented to the board.
The scenario that the trustees seemed to prefer by the end of Wednesday's meeting, and which they indicated would be used as the base of any new proposals, was an adaptation of scenario 9. The members of the Latino community who appeared at the meeting, however, did not approve of either that scenario or the board's adaptation of it. ...
Not a single district in the board's currently preferred plan has a majority Latino population, despite the fact that Latino constituents make up 29.14 percent of Clark County's population, and Latino students make up 41 percent of the school district.
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