Fifty years after the desegregation of schools in Alabama segregation is still going strong in 2013! The children of Huntsville, Alabama need your support to stop segregation in our schools now and to ensure equal education forever.

Today we need your help to stop the damage that Huntsville City Schools is causing to our minority communities.  Our children's education and their futures are important; it is time for us to demand quality education for ALL students.

To do this we must first insist that the Hereford – Department of Justice desegregation order remain in place. We have several reasons why Huntsville City Schools should remain under the desegregation court order and why they should be forced to stop and re-start the desegregation process, including Huntsville City Schools’ plans to close and construct new schools. We do not want a new school for the purpose of sacrificing our children's basic education needs; we need  certified teachers who have obtained at least a four year degree in the subject area, we need a curriculum that is not focused on trades, we need our children to receive a quality education!

Huntsville City Schools should not be considered for unitary status (which would end the desegregation order) for these reasons:

1. They have failed to have town hall meetings that educate/reveal the entire plan under full transparency and to openly hear the voices of the community. Instead, the school system has hidden known facts and has held secret closed meetings. They have violated written policies and deployed propaganda, sold half truths to the community, the elected officials and the DOJ in hopes that they could eliminate public outrage. They are attempting to both cheat the state failing school status and game the unitary status process.

2. They have redirected the middle school students from the Academy of Science and Foreign Language School (ASFL) away from J. O. Johnson High School’s International Magnet Program to Columbia High School, furthering the underground pipeline to seize top students away from Johnson High.

3. They have failed to have any significant impact on the achievement gap between African American students attending predominately African American schools and the Caucasian students attending predominately Caucasian schools.

4. Predominately African American school students are required to wear uniforms and predominately Caucasian school students are allowed to wear regular clothing. The school system did not plan an avenue for the free or reduced lunch students to receive free or reduced cost uniforms causing an unnecessary expense to low income families.

5. The school system is closing many predominately African American schools but has reclassified/reconfigured many predominately Caucasian schools and positioned them to stay open. They are attempting to cheat the states “Failing School” list by simply closing and RENAMING predominately African American schools to eliminate the failing academic record. However, the very same African American students remain in the school and feeder schools with no change to the educational quality.

6. Huntsville City Schools makes rules and breaks rules which create unequal treatment and disparate impact on the minority community.

7. Huntsville City Schools rezoning plans manufacture re-segregation where schools will be about 90% black students and the other schools will be 90% white.

8. Huntsville City Schools is cheating the DOJ by under reporting student discipline in minority and majority schools. Security, Teachers and Administration are directed to under report and simply manage discipline issues in the classroom so they do not get reported which lessens the negative impact it has on the desegregation requirements.

9. Huntsville City Schools provides preferential treatment to African American student athletes over African American students when it comes to majority to minority transfers for extracurricular and sports programs in the predominantly Caucasian schools. Majority students do not transfer to minority schools for extracurricular and sports programs.

10. Minority schools get Teach for America (TFA) teachers in overabundance and get fewer certified experienced teachers which create a dual system that is not equitable in teacher quality and quality of education.

11. Minority school libraries and athletic facilities do not have the same resources and equipment as majority schools.

12. They have engaged in making false accusations against constituents when questioned about voting positions taken over these issues.

13. They have also engaged in creating and passing policies in unethical procedures in order to accommodate their agenda of creating a system that looks good on paper with very little regard to the detrimental consequences these policies have on our poor and/or minority students.

Separate and unequal must end now, please help us send a message to the Huntsville City Schools and the Department of Justice that we will accept no less!