The Little Rock School District Board of Directors voted last night to authorize its legal counsel to file an appeal of Federal District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr.'s January 17 order, which held that the opening and expansion of open-enrollment public charter schools in Pulaski County did not violate the 1989 Settlement Agreement among the State and three Pulaski County school districts concerning magnet school programs and interdistrict majority-to-minority transfer programs. The appeal would be to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. The District must notify the Court of Appeals by Monday of its intent to appeal. A link to a full story on this matter in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette may be found here: http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/feb/15/lr-district-appeal-charter-school-ruling-20130215/