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Article: The public schools and the challenge of the Supreme Court's integration decision; The High Court's complex decision in the Seattle and Louisville desegregation cases limited the means school officials can use to seek diversity, but, the authors argue, we should not lose sight of the goal.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
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- November 1, 2007
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THIS PAST June, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court declared integration plans in Louisville and Seattle unconstitutional because of their focus on race as one factor in assigning students to schools. The Court's ruling in the Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. (1) and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education cases, therefore, significantly narrowed the options local officials have to create and maintain racially diverse school enrollments and stabilize their districts by making all schools more equal.
The legal issue in these cases was whether or not school officials in districts that are no longer (or never were) ...