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The school system is in shamble, observers say, still reeling from the racial tensions stirred up by court-ordered busing seven years ago and a resulting drop in enrollment of more than one-third.
The troubling thing about the Justice Department's position is that it argues against school busing on purely expedient grounds, apparently accepting "white flight" as a legitimate response to desegregation. Desegregation is not a luxury, nor should it be legitimized only when popular among whites. The Supreme Court authorized courts...
On the very same day the Court handed down its decision. Washington's Joint Center for Political Studies released a study showing that racial segregation has increased sharply in public schools over the past 15 years. That study, commissioned by a Congressional committee, also found that school districts with wide...
THAT THE ADMINISTRATION opposes these affirmative action programs does not necessarily damn it as bigoted. Affirmative action, like school busing, is an emotional and highly complex issue, and recent cases have shown preferential hiring to be a double-edged sword in which the same arguments can support either side. But...
Courts have been struggling with these subtle questions of affirmative action, and of busing, for many years; political pressure on the judiciary can only upset any balance that has been achieved. It's time for Reagan to take his thumb off the scales of civil rights justice.