Plaintiffs critical of report

CHAMPAIGN – The Champaign school district has not sufficiently shown how it will meet the goals of its federal consent decree, say the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case.

Instead, in a Sept. 22 report filed with the federal district court, the district provided a narrative of "many previously attempted and sometimes failed strategies or new strategies with inadequate monitoring provisions," and restated broad goals, they say. The plaintiffs particularly took issue with the failure to set out interim steps to reach the district's goals and measure its progress.

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