JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Duval County (Fla.) School Board sued Jacksonville in Duval County Court, for refusing to put a school capital surtax on the ballot, to remedy deplorable conditions in “schools that were built long ago to segregate African-American children (and) are still in use.”
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