Word: latinate
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After the case, Boston Latin called on Edley,Ogletree and the consulting firm, Bain & Co., tohelp it revamp its policy...
Under the new policy enacted in December 1996,Boston Latin assigned 50 percent of the placesbased on merit determined by entrance examinationresults and grade point average. School officialsallocated the remaining places on "flexibleracial/ethnic guidelines," determined by thepercentage of each of five ethnic and racialcategories in the applicant pool...
...carrying out this policy, Boston Latindenied admission to Sarah P. Wessmann, who appliedto Boston Latin with the 1997 ninth grade class.She and her lawyer Michael C. McLaughlin, who hadargued his daughter's case several years earlier,challenged the new policy as beingunconstitutional...
...cannot be said that racial balancing iseither a legitimate or necessary means ofadvancing the lofty principles recited in the[school's] policy," the decision read. "Weconclude today that the School Committee's policydoes not meet the Bakke standard and,accordingly, that the concept of `diversity'implemented by BLS [Boston Latin] does not justifya race-based classification...
...consequently, next year, for the firsttime in 25 years, Boston Latin will admit studentsbased on test scores and grades alone. The twoother examination schools, Boston Latin Academyand John D. O'Bryant School for Mathematics andScience, will implement similar policies...