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Reports on the Minneapolis, Minnesota chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) lawsuit against the state in a bid to force the state to support a metrowide school-desegregation plan. Group's demand for affordable housing in the suburbs; Resignation of state board president Georgina Stephens over alleged racial bias; Comments of local NAACP president Bill Davis.

The article reports on trends of racial conflicts in the Oxnard Union High School District of California and the efforts of several civil rights organizations to address the problem. Details are given outlining a task force created with the cooperation of the League of United Latin American Citizens and the National Associations for the Advancement of Colored People seeking to resolve the problem.

The Anne Arundel County, Maryland, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has filed a discrimination complaint against the county's public schools. NAACP officials, parents, and community members held a press conference announcing their decision to file the complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights on May 17, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which overturned legal segregation in public schools.

Reports on the Department of Education's office for civil rights' (OCR) planned investigation of a bias complaint filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People against Texas' high school graduation examination. Description of the state's examination system for high school students; Texas Education Agency's defense of the exit exams; Previous investigation on Ohio's exit test.