San Francisco's groundbreaking economic - desegregation plan satisfies the short - term goals of the litigants — creating a student - assignment system that
avoids racial quotas, passes constitutional muster, yet also maintains a degree of racial diversity in the schools, given the connection between racial and economic status.
But even in that circuit, several school districts and one state (Connecticut) have continued to
avoid the use of
racial quotas in magnet admissions because they believe using them invites a legal challenge.