Supreme Court rejects public school diversity plans that take race into account

Friday, June 29, 2007

WASHINGTON -- A half-century after the Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools, sharply divided justices clamped new limits Thursday on local school efforts to make sure children of different races share classrooms.

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