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Article: Demagnetised.(Supreme Court weakens desegregation in ruling against state funding of magnet schools in Kansas City, Missouri)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 17, 1995
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IT WAS a coincidence; but, in the present climate, it seemed inevitable. On the same day that the Supreme Court narrowed the focus of federal affirmative-action programmes, it also handed down stricter standards for desegregating schools in the United States.
The schools case, arising from the integration programme in Kansas City, is not a sweeping pronouncement on the entire controversy; nor, in fact, does it end the programme in Kansas City. But the court found, by a 5-4 majority, that the lower federal courts had improperly ordered the state of Missouri to help pay for magnet schools that were designed to entice white students into mostly black school districts.
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