A scheduled vote by The Pitt County Board of Education to draw new attendance lines Monday is set against decades of perceived inequities, officials said.

In addition to accommodating recent population growth and facility changes, this reassignment also is part of the district's effort to achieve unitary status, or the official elimination of the vestiges of dual system segregation. Click here for maps, statistics and more coverage on the redistricting process.

The school system's 1971 desegregation court orders, which were revisited when a 2005 redistricting plan based on race was protested and investigated, have yet to be officially closed out. A report on the district's progress toward unitary status is due in federal court by December 2012.

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