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Hazelwood School District v. United States
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- Hazelwood School District v. United States (1977) involved a dispute over inequitable hiring practices involving African American teachers. In Hazelwood, the U.S. Supreme Court held that in order to determine whether a school board and educational officials engaged in a discriminatory pattern or practice of underemploying African American teachers, the judiciary had to undertake a comparison between the percentage of African American teachers in the district and the percentage of African American teachers in the labor market of the surrounding area.Facts of the CaseHazelwood began when the U.S. government filed suit against the Hazelwood School District, in St. [Source: Encyclopedia of Education Law; Hazelwood School District v. United States]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Hazelwood_School_District_v._United_States
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