DOVER, Del. (AP) - A federal judge in Wilmington has granted the state of Delaware's request to dismiss racial and gender discrimination claims filed by parents of students at a struggling all-girls charter school trying to stave off a second state-ordered closure.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Stark on Thursday granted the Department of Education's request to dismiss the lawsuit involving predominantly black Reach Academy in New Castle.
Stark said the plaintiffs had not shown that the decision to revoke the school's charter at the end of this school year was based on racial or gender discrimination.
The judge earlier this year refused to issue a preliminary injunction in the case, saying attorneys for Reach Academy had not shown that they were likely to succeed with any legal claims against state education officials.
