Sentences with phrase «where racial balances»

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In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court made school integration more difficult when it prohibited the Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, school districts from making racial balance a factor in assigning students to schools in cases where applicant numbers exceeded available seats.1 The plurality opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts called student categorization by race unconstitutional unless it was designed to reverse the effects of explicit rules that segregated students by race.

Even in liberal Minneapolis, a 1995 public opinion poll showed that 75 percent of the public supported sending students to their neighborhood school — that is, the school nearest to where they live — regardless of that school's racial balance.