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As these disparities have become too glaring and shameful to ignore, a reform movement has grown that seeks to play Robin Hood by taking funds from richer districts to help pay for schools in poorer ones. Since the 1970s, 10 states have decided -- or been forced by courts -- to overhaul...
The frightened took another path: The urban riots of the late '60s and the busing fights of the early '70s were the last straw for an already frustrated white middle class. White flight resulted in a huge real estate turnover in middle class urban neighborhoods, the housing glut drove prices...
In the mid-70s, the Supreme Court stopped integration at city limits. Urban school districts lost their white students to all-white, well funded suburban high schools, and thousands of poor minority students languished in inadequate, unfunded, hopeless inner-city school districts. The solution is probably not busing thousands of...
One guiding interpretation is the court's 1947 Everson v. Board of Education decision, which said public money could be spent on busing New Jersey parochial school students because it benefited the children. But funds could not go directly to the school involved because tax money could not be used...
By Thursday the Iraqis were ready to hand over the hostages to the Red Cross in Baghdad. But fierce civil warfare made all roads to the capital unsafe. So helicopters flew the group from Basra to Baghdad, dodging flares and tracer fire along the three-hour flight. In Baghdad, the...