High court probes K-12 school diversity
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The Supreme Court is diving into a debate over school diversity that is as old as Reconstruction-era efforts to integrate blacks into the mainstream and as new as the 5:35 a.m. start time on some buses carrying students across town in Louisville, Ky.
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OLYMPIA - A coalition of 11 school districts filed a lawsuit against the state yesterday, arguing the Legislature has not lived up to its constitutional obligation to fully fund special education.
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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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School districts in three states and the nation's largest teachers union asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to revive a lawsuit challenging the way government-mandated programs are funded.
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Wanting to maintain a role as engines of social mobility, about two dozen elite schools have pushed in the past few years to diversify economically.
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Some reaction to the Supreme Court decision Thursday rejecting school integration plans in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle:
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The Supreme Court said Thursday that athletic associations can enforce limits on recruiting high school athletes without violating coaches' free speech rights.
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Eight families have filed a federal lawsuit against a school district that is requiring students to learn about alternatives to the theory of evolution.
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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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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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Students cannot be assigned to public schools because of their race, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a significant civil rights decision that casts doubt on integration efforts adopted across the country.
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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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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Even before a Supreme Court decision on integration, the push to improve public schools had turned, increasingly, on money.
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In districts around the country, even when evolution is in the curriculum it may not be in the classroom.
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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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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.