Although several plaintiffs in a suit alleging that the Lower Merion School District racially discriminated against them may have faced “procedural irregularities” regarding their placement in special education classes, a federal judge has ruled there was no evidence to support the alleged errors were racially charged.
U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III outlined in a 34-page opinion that the 11 plaintiffs remaining in Blunt v. Lower Merion School District relied heavily on statistics to show over-representation of black students in special education, but those statistics were not accompanied by proof of racial discrimination. The plaintiffs consisted of seven current and former students and four parents.
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