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...Carolina accused the President of trying to "ram [reform] down America's throat," but the White House was quick to fire back. It held a conference call to emphasize support (albeit mostly Democratic) for the bill, which then cleared a major hurdle on June 25 in the Senate. "The status quo is unacceptable," a White House aide told reporters...
...common method uses students' socio-economic status. That usually means determining whether they qualify for the federal program offering free or reduced-price meals to low-income kids. In 2000, Wake County, North Carolina, stopped considering race and started making assignments so that, among other things, no more than 40% of any public school's students qualified for free or reduced-price meals, according to Walt Sherlin, the assistant school superintendent who implemented the plan. Today, student performance is way up - the plan's main objective - while the schools are still diverse. But Sherlin says diversity is a mere coincidence...
...Where poverty doesn't correlate closely with race, socio-economic status can be a bust. San Francisco stopped using race to assign students in 2001 and adopted a plan based in large part on economic factors like a students' eligibility for housing assistance or the free-meals program. Though the city's school district says it is "racially and culturally diverse" overall, it admits that its individual schools "have severely resegregated...
...Many will try things like relocating schools to minority neighborhoods or taking socio-economic status or neighborhood diversity into account, all measures endorsed by Justice Kennedy and at least mentioned by Chief Justice Roberts in today's opinions. But despite the court's apparent imprimatur, even those alternatives are not guaranteed to survive a future court challenge...
...republican victory was repeatedly stymied, Garibaldi, who lived to 75, would often disappear on far-flung journeys, or to his island retreat. Not only did this help him stay one step ahead of his enemies, but it saved the Lion of Caprera from another risk to his cult-like status and democratic aspirations: overexposure. For Garibaldi understood that translating his fighting fame into political victory was the most challenging battle...