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Though he said he's been considering the change for four years, Superintendent Thomas W. Payzant admitted his decision to remove the racial factor comes largely from the urgency of last month's class action lawsuit filed against the school system...
...have a low probability of meeting the constitutional standard," Superintendent Thomas W. Payzant said of the recent conservative tenor of the federal court system...
...Payzant argued that the city's present-day demographics mean that losing the "racial fairness" guidelines "would not have a dramatic impact on the composition of the schools...
Today's school system is 49 percent black, 26 percent Hispanic, 15 percent white and 9 percent Asian, essentially ensuring somewhat diverse schools regardless of the assignment plan, Payzant said...
Willie characterized Payzant's data as "totally bogus...