Court Takes 2 Race-Based School-Assignment Cases

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The Supreme Court said yesterday it will hear appeals of two cases that could determine if race can be used in assigning students to public schools for the purpose of enhancing enrollment diversity in situations where court orders are not involved.

The court announced that it will take up the case this fall of a Louisville, Ky., woman who says the Jefferson County Public Schools' desegregation plan is unconstitutional because it barred her son from transferring to a better school. Her son is white.

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Court Takes 2 Race-Based School-Assignment Cases

In the second case, a Seattle parents' group charges that a policy of the Seattle school district that allowed student...

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