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Transcript: Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Kansas City Case
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- January 11, 1995
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[`All Things Considered' theme music]
LINDA WERTHEIMER, Anchor: When is desegregation complete?
ROBERT SIEGEL, Anchor: It's All Things Considered from National Public
Radio.
[`All Things Considered' theme music]
LINDA WERTHEIMER: Kansas City schools are in the Supreme Court arguing
that Missouri has spent years and more than a billion dollars to desegregate
and has done enough.
ROBERT SIEGEL: Kansas City parents disagree and say more is needed.
1st MAN: [excerpt from tape] The defendants in this case systematically
undermind the education for kids in this primarily African-American
school district. It overcrowded their classrooms, it ...