D.S. v. New York City Deptartment of Education

Minority students and parents (plaintiffs) sued the NYC Department of Education (defendant), alleging that Boys & Girls High School - 99.4% minority and 62% below the poverty line - deliberately denied students an education by placing roughly 500 students on modified schedules without adequate instruction, wrongfully barring registered students from entering, and discouraging attendance by confiscating students' coats and IDs needed to enter the building. The plaintiffs alleged this violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal educational opportunity. The parties reached a proposed settlement in which the school agreed to an injunction against wrongful exclusion, staff training, monitoring, and additional remedial services (vocational training, counseling, literacy programs) for the affected subclass, and asked the court to approve it.