It’s 2017 and Cleveland School District in Mississippi will finally desegregate its racially divided high schools and middle schools.
But the school district is now facing a federal lawsuit filed by a Black woman who claims her daughter was forced to share “co-valedictorian” status with a white student who had a lower grade point average.
In the lawsuit filed last week, Sherry Shepard alleges that her daughter, Jasmine, had to unethically share the 2016 Cleveland High School valedictorian honors.
