March 30, 2007

Historically Black Colleges Seek Congress's Help in Desegregation Disputes

By PETER SCHMIDT

The leader of an advocacy group representing historically black colleges says two key members of Congress have agreed to hold hearings to determine if the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has shirked its responsibility to enforce higher-education desegregation agreements.

But press officers for the two Congressmen, Rep. John Conyers Jr., a Michigan Democrat, and Robert C. (Bobby) Scott, a Virginia Democrat, declined last week to confirm or deny that they had any plans to

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