Court to Weigh Race as Factor in School Rolls
Court to Weigh Race as Factor in School Rolls
WASHINGTON, June 5 — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule on what measures, if any, public school systems may use to maintain racial balance in individual schools.
The eventual decision on whether they can take race into account could affect hundreds of school systems in all areas of the country. The court accepted challenges to plans in Louisville, Ky., where the schools were once racially segregated by law, and in Seattle, where segregation was never official but was widespread because of residential patterns.
Federal appeals courts upheld these plans, both of which offer students a choice of schools while taking race into account in deciding which transfer applications to accept. Variations of this approach are common, and have been under legal attack around the country...
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