Key U.S. justice opposes use of race in school cases
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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 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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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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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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Democrats and civil rights organizations had complained that the judge is not committed to racial equality.
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A lawsuit seeking to block a new state law that gave Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa partial control of the nation's second-largest school district has gone to a judge.
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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
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A divided Supreme Court yesterday restricted the ability of public school districts to use race to determine which schools students can attend, a decision that could sharply limit integration programs across the nation.
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The Kansas State Historical Society said Thursday it won't allow city officials to demolish the former all-white school that was at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education case.
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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.
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A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered a  Georgia school district to remove stickers challenging the  theory of evolution from its textbooks on the grounds that they  violated the U.S. Constitution.
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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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The Supreme Court debates whether school districts can adopt race-conscious student-assignment policies to keep schools from resegregating
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina  -- A guns-drawn raid at a high school last year did not violate civil rights laws and the case is closed, the US Justice Department said.
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School officials in Seattle, Washington, said Thursday they know they cannot use "race-specific" rules to increase diversity in their schools but believe they can accomplish similar goals with "race-conscious measures."
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Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district's appeal of a ruling that it violated a student's rights by censoring his anti-Bush T-shirt.
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Accusations against an attorney who worked on a federal case in which black farmers claimed the government denied them loans because of their race could affect the landmark civil rights settlement.