Court to reconsider racial diversity in schools
WASHINGTON - The ability to use race when assigning students to public schools is on the line in two cases before the Supreme Court that could produce the most important decision on school desegregation in decades.
Parents in Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, are challenging school assignment plans that factor in a student's race in an effort to have individual school populations approximate the racial makeup of the entire system.
Federal appeals courts have upheld both programs.
The school policies are designed to keep schools from segregating along the same lines as neighborhoods.
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[IndyChristian Ed. Note: If you've not spent a lot of time walking in someone else's shoes -- especially the shoes walking through life always in the minority -- let me encourage you to read the following... a Christian classic. It will offend you at first... and then change your life.]
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