Here's how The Courier Journal reported a series on JCPS' student assignment plan.
Olivia Krauth and Mandy McLaren, Louisville Courier Journal
Published
2:53 pm UTC Feb. 3, 2021
Two reporters, six months, at least three dozen records requests, more than 55 interviews — here's how The Courier Journal examined Louisville's both criticized and lauded school desegregation plan:
ANALYZING THE LEGACY
The Courier Journal combed federal court records and historical archives in order to trace the assignment plan's evolution since the 1970s, including the Henry A. Triplett legal files held at the University of Louisville's Archives & Special Collections.
Reporters additionally used historical records, including The Courier Journal's own archives, to reconstruct Louisville's education landscape prior to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.