Court limits schools considering race
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected integration plans in two major public school districts but left the door open for using race to assign students in limited circumstances.
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The legal case of a girl with special educational needs could prompt a rethink of the use of restraint in schools.
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State District Judge John Dietz declared Texas&#39; public school funding system unconstitutional last Wednesday. Dietz said the $30 billion funneled into public schools each year by the state is inadequate to foot the educational bill.
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The Supreme Court is weighing a lawsuit brought by a school coach who says his firing violates Title IX.
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A bitterly divided Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that race cannot be used to decide where students go to school, one of the most important civil rights rulings in years that could affect millions of students nationwide.
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A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Michigan's top universities can continue using race and gender in their admissions decisions for next year's incoming students, despite a voter-approved ban on affirmative action that was supposed to take effect this weekend.
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Several hundred demonstrators, many of them college or high school students, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court early this morning to proclaim support for using skin color as a factor in admissions in order to maintain racially diverse public schools.
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Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced a plan Monday to limit gifted and talented programs to students who score in the top 5 percent on admissions tests.
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A private school for Native Hawaiians may favor applicants based on their race, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday, citing the unique history and relationship between Hawaii and the United States.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ordered on Monday further consideration of a challenge by Democrats and minority groups to a controversial Republican-backed congressional redistricting plan in Texas.
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The US supreme court signalled its shift to the right yesterday in a decision that undermines a landmark legal ruling of the civil rights era that outlawed segregation in schools.
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A state judge found Texas&#39; school finance system unconstitutional Wednesday because of its inefficiency in providing adequate education to all students, and is giving the state one year to find a solution.
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The Supreme Court considers the case of a fired coach who had railed against conditions for female athletes.
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A justice who may cast the decisive vote on the closely divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sharply criticized using race to decide where students go to school.
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider whether states may offer license plates with antiabortion messages, leaving lower courts divided over whether the programs in a dozen states unconstitutionally restrict dissenting views.
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Democrats criticise a US Supreme Court ruling against racial quotas in schools, but advocacy groups are split.
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BOBIGNY, France -- A court ordered a high school yesterday to hold a disciplinary hearing to decide whether three Sikh boys excluded from classes for wearing turbans should be admitted or expelled.