Back to the Supreme Court: racial balance in schools
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The Christian Science Monitor - America is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse countries in the world. Yet 52 years after Brown v. Board of Education - the landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down segregation - US classrooms are growing increasingly segregated.
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Some of the major arguments at the Supreme Court in 2005:
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Minority Rules: Turn Your Ethnicity Into a Competitive Edge By Kenneth Arroyo Roldan and Gary M. Stern Collins, 304 pages, $22.95
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One Supreme Court justice says his fellow conservatives are "too dismissive" of government efforts to ensure racial diversity in schools. Another more liberal member says those on the right did "serious violence" to a high school student's free speech rights.
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The Supreme Court is considering whether a landmark gender equity law protects an Alabama high school coach who complained about unfair treatment of his girls' basketball team, a case testing the scope of women's athletic rights.
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The ability to use race when assigning students to public schools is on the line in two cases before the Supreme Court on Monday that could produce the most important decision on school desegregation in decades.
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky  - Seventeen-year-old Quantae Williams doesn't understand why the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his school district's racial diversity program.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down public school choice plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky, concluding they relied on an unconstitutional use of racial criteria, in a sharply worded pair of cases reflecting the deep legal and social divide over the issue of skin color and education.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in two cases involving the use of race in school assignments, then immediately release audio tapes of the proceeding.
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There seemed little prospect that plans to maintain racial integration at two urban school systems would survive the Supreme CourtÂs scrutiny.
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Chanting slogans and waving signs, thousands of demonstrators -- mostly high school and college students and teachers -- gathered yesterday on the steps of the Supreme Court to support the use of race in programs to maintain school integration.
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Just two weeks before America&#39;s voters are expected to leave Republicans in control of the US House of Representatives, the Supreme Court yesterday revived a
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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The Christian Science Monitor - At the crossroads of education and civil rights, a new signpost has been planted by the US Supreme Court, leaving school districts that have been striving for integration wondering which way to proceed.
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The Supreme Court's decision overturning school desegregation policies in two U.S. cities yesterday culminates a fractious term in which the new Roberts court moved the law significantly to the right, legal analysts said.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit the use of race in assigning students to public schools is drawing Massachusetts into a legal dispute over school desegregation in one of its cities.
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Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education. In the case, Roderick Jackson -- formerly a basketball coach at a public high school -- alleges that he was removed