Diaz v. San Jose Unified School District (1984)

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Plaintiffs challenged San Jose Unified as segregatory despite a lack of explicit de jure policies. The school board claimed that while adherence to a "neighborhood school" policy had led to ethnically imbalanced schools and omission of imbalance reducing options, this was de facto segregation and not in violation of federal law. There existed a pattern of decisions regarding attendance areas, school construction, faculty assignments, and transportation provision that moved towards further segregation despite a more efficient or cheaper solution that would have reduced racial imbalance.