San Francisco NAACP v. San Francisco Unified School District

OPINION AND ORDER

Plaintiffs^ the San Francisco Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (the “NAACP”) and individual parents proceeding on behalf of their children, have joined with defendants San Francisco Unified School District, its Board Members, and its Superintendent (hereafter collectively called the “District” or the “S.F.U.S.D.”) to bring a motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of desegregation financing. Specifically, the moving parties ask that the Court rule that all expenses necessary to implement the terms of the Settlement and Consent Decree (“the Decree”) are fully reimbursable by the State of California (the “State”). This joint motion is opposed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Department of Education (hereinafter collectively called “State Defendants”), who claim the State is obligated to pay for only 80 percent of these costs. At the hearing on this motion, the Court took the matter under submission, pending consideration of a motion to intervene by the State Department of Finance. The Court has since denied the motion to intervene. After considering the papers filed by the parties, and…