United States v. Yonkers Board of Education

624 F. Supp. 1276, 1985 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13713
District Court, S.D. New York·Decided November 20, 1985·No. 80 Civ. 6761 (LBS)·Published·Cited by 87 cases

Opinion

OPINION

SAND, District Judge.

*? TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

HOUSING:

I. BACKGROUND .........................................................1289

II. STATEMENT OF CLAIMS AND LEGAL STANDARDS ..................1291

III. THE CITY’S EARLY ACTIVITIES UNDER THE NATIONAL HOUSING ACT OF 1949 .......................................................... 1294

A. The Procedure for the Selection and Approval of Sites for Public Housing .................................................................1294

B. Site Selection for the City’s 1949 Allocation of Public Housing Units .. 1295

C. Site Selection for Senior Citizen Housing .............................1300

D. The City’s Campaign to Produce Sites for Relocation Housing ........1302

E. The Nature and Effect of the Recurring Pattern of Public Opposition . 1306

IV. THE RIVERVIEW PERIOD .............................................1313
A. Overview of Projects Approved ......................................1313

B. The Continuing Opposition to Subsidized Housing in the City’s Heavily White Neighborhoods ................................................1314

C. The Pattern of Opposition and Apparent Acquiescence ................1316

1. The City’s Campaign to Produce Privately Sponsored Projects .....1316

2. The Candeub & Fleissig Survey and the City’s 1970 Memorandum of Understanding with the UDC .................................1317

3. The Glenwood/Ridge Avenue Project and Rockledge Heights ......1320

4. Seven Pines .....................................................1322

5. Parkledge .......................................................1323

D. The City’s Explanations for its Confinement of Subsidized Housing to the Southwest ......................................................1327

1. Reliance on HUD’s Express Directions ...........................1328

2. The Absence of Private Developer Proposals In the East .........1330

3. Support for the Projects Among the Minority Community .........1331

4. The Unsuitability of East Side Sites ..............................1333

5. The Pursuit of a Legitimate Planning Strategy to Use Subsidized Housing to Rebuild the Southwest ...............................1337

V. THE CITY’S ACTIVITIES UNDER THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1974 .......................................... 1342

A. Subsidized Housing Under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 ......................................................... 1342

B. The Section 8 Existing Program .....................................1342
C. Section 8 New Construction Housing for Senior Citizens ..............1348

1. The City’s Actions ...............................................1348

2. The Effect of the City’s Actions .................................1351

D. Subsidized Housing for Families Under the HAPs for Years I through IV ..................................................................1352

E. The Palmer Road Site ...............................................1353
F. Actions Subsequent to the 1980 Contract Conditions ..................1356

1. Salisbury Gardens ...............................................1356

2. The Neustadter Site .............................................1358

3. School 4 ........................................................1358

VI. THE EFFECT OF THE CITY’S ACTIONS ON THE RACIAL CONFIGURATION OF YONKERS ................. 1358

VII. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW ...............................................1369

*1287 SCHOOLS:

I. THE CLAIMS OF UNLAWFUL SCHOOL SEGREGATION ................1376
II. LEGAL STANDARDS ...................................................1378
III. THE YONKERS PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM .............................1382
IV. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION ..........................................1388
A. School Openings, Closings, and Attendance Zone Changes .............1388

1. Introduction .....................................................1388

2. School Openings .................................................1395

a. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School . .................1395

b. School 10 ...................................................1403

c. Commerce Middle School ....................................1410

3. School Closings ..................................................1410

a. School 1 ....................................................1410

b. 1976 School Closings ........................................1413

c. Longfellow Middle School ....................................1422

4. Attendance Zone Changes ........................................1428

a. Schools 16 and 25 ........................................... 1428

B. Equal Educational Opportunity .......................................1430

1. Physical Characteristics ..........................................1431

2. Staff ............................................................1433

3. Students ........................................................1437

4. Educational Programs and Resources .............................1439

5. Integration and Educational Opportunity ..........................1443

C. Vocational Education: Steering and Screening of Minority Students ... 1444
D. Special Education ...................................................1453
E. Teacher and Administrative Staff Assignments .......................1462
F. Refusal to Implement Desegregative Reorganization Plans ............1467

1. Introduction .....................................................1467

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