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US Supreme Court rules school districts cannot consider race in integration plans

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

On Thursday, the last court session before its traditional summer recess, the Supreme Court struck down school integration plans in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky, ruling for the first time that local school officials cannot constitutionally consider the race of their students when implementing plans to maintain racial balance among ...