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Among the Brown localities, Delaware was the most welcoming to the notion of integration, at least in legal terms. Black parents in the suburb of Claymont in 1951 wanted their children to attend the school that was closest to their home--much as Smith says he wants for his children now--but that was a white school. Unlike in the other Brown cases, the state court ruled in favor of the black families, and it was the state board of education that appealed...
...federal court had ordered Wilmington's New Castle County to comply with one of the most invasive busing orders in the country--a plan that reorganized its 11 school districts into four systems, each of them part urban and part suburban. Under the order, all students had to attend school for three years in the city and nine years in the suburbs...
Again, many white families voted with their feet, moving this time to private schools or just over the Pennsylvania border. Today Delaware has one of the highest private-school attendance rates in the country, at 19%--and that number started its climb just as busing began. In Brandywine, the district where Smith's children attend school, 26% of families opt for private schools. In 1995 a federal judge ruled that Wilmington had achieved integration and lifted the court order. But by then much of the earlier tension had abated, and the four districts continued busing...
...being sent away, riding down 95 because of their skin color?'" In 2000, after an emotional debate played out in the Op-Ed pages of the local paper and in public hearings, Smith pushed the Neighborhood Schools Act through the legislature. The law requires children in Delaware to attend the schools closest to their homes. So far 3 of the 4 affected districts have begun to comply with the law, but Brandywine, Smith's home district, has successfully made the case to the state school board that the law poses too great a hardship. Obeying the act, Brandywine officials said...
...created by the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center at the National Institutes of Health and the Genetic Alliance, an advocacy group. This June in San Antonio, Jannine Cody is convening the first World Congress on Chromosome Abnormalities. More than 1,000 parents, doctors and researchers are expected to attend. Sessions will range from "Neurological and Anatomical Imaging" to "Potty/Sleep Solutions." The event is the culmination of 15 years of work, with twin goals of building stronger advocacy groups for children with chromosomal abnormalities and establishing a nucleus of scientists dedicated to addressing their problems. "Somebody ought to give that...