Back to the Supreme Court: racial balance in schools
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On Monday, the court takes up cases from Seattle and Louisville on the role of race in school enrollment.
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The US Supreme Court rules that the race of a child cannot be used to determine the school he or she goes to.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Abortion regulations and race-based public school enrollment plans are among major national issues at the US Supreme Court this year in a term that offers the first real insight into the constitutional vision of the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts.
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Important cases on race in schools, campaign finance and student speech rights are still to be decided before the Supreme Court adjourns for the summer.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected school assignment plans that take account of students' race in two major public school districts. The decisions could imperil similar plans nationwide. The Court also blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.
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Public schools in the United States are  becoming more racially segregated and the trend is likely to  accelerate because of a Supreme Court decision in June,  according to report published on Wednesday.
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States want children to be a year older when they enter school. This could lead to better test scores â and more inequality.
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School segregation saga has dragged the state into a confrontation with its segregationist past that illuminates the uneasy race relations of its present.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker considers the issue of school admissions.
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By Tiffany Erickson Deseret Morning News  In a move to clear up school voucher confusion as swiftly as possible, opponents want to send the crux of the voucher issue straight to the Utah Supreme Court.  Friday Rep.
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Monday's article, "Do vouchers = segregation?" helps all reasonable people realize that vouchers must be a good thing. Once again, the race card has been played by the side with no other valid argument (remember O.J.?).
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appeared poised Monday to alter the system used for sentencing 64,000 federal criminal defendants a year, but justices clashed over whether changes would create greater inequity.    Judges, not juries, consider factors that can add years to defendants' prison sentences, under the government's 17-year-old system which has been challenged as unconstitutional...
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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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Despite warnings that he was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school, one principal has outlasted his predecessors while producing surprising results.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court returned for another term Monday and wasted no time getting down to business, appearing poised to alter the system used for sentencing 64,000 federal criminal defendants a year.    But justices clashed over whether any changes they make would create greater inequity in the federal system...
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This election's potential impact on the Supreme Court has seemed to be an afterthought, but the stakes for the court and the law are even higher now than they were in 2000. The prospect of a change on the court is greater and the replacement of one justice could affect the law on hot issues.
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By Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Dec. 8--In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. the Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees all citizens equal protection of the laws.