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...Norman Chachkin, a member of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law insisted that the agreement "should have been backed up with a provision for mandatory busing." He cited Chicago as a city where voluntary desegregation based on the creation of magnet schools "has been nothing short of a disaster." Indeed, even though Chicago has had a network of magnet schools since 1973, its white student population has dropped to 16% from 29%. By contrast, Boston's magnet-school program, established in 1974 as part of a court-ordered desegregation plan that included busing, has become a source...
...court's ruling gave no indication of whether the guards' suit, or others like it, would succeed. Nor did it suggest any new standard to which employers might be held. "It just opens the door," said Norman Chachkin of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. "But a decision going the other way would have shut the door with a pretty big clang...
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