Last June, the eulogizing came quickly after the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to strike down the race-based integration plans at two public school districts. “Bye-bye, Brown,” was University of Louisville education professor Skip Kifer’s succinct response in the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. But in Jefferson County, Ky. — one of the school districts whose policies the court declared unconstitutional — school… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pages“school officials have come up with an integration strategy that uses household income, adult education levels and race “
Why include race at all? If we are to help disadvantaged people, the use of socioeconomic class as a metric makes much more sense than race.
Posted by wolf on May 7, 2008 at 8:29 AM I hope that whatever plan that they come up with, that it is fair and just. It is time that this country fixes all the problems of the past so that we can work towards building our future. We all belong here and deserve to be treated equally.
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