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...court’s decision in the two cases—Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education—may overturn its landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education...
...cosmopolitan, and it’s not logical.” The cap policy, combined with Cambridge’s steeply rising living costs, has pushed the price of a full restaurant liquor license in the Square to $400,000, according to Cambridge License Commission Chairman Richard V. Scali, who attended the meeting. Denise Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, pointed out at a separate meeting that this makes operating in the Square prohibitively expensive for anyone but large chains. Yet, the Square wants to attract more “small mom-and-pop enterprises...
...scheduling policy is in line with the [National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)] list of teams that they published a year ago with what they deemed to be offensive mascots,” said Chuck V. Sullivan, the director of athletic communications at Harvard. Sullivan said that no games have been scheduled with those teams since the list was published...
...Jefferson County dispute has in some ways been brewing for more than a half century, ever since the Supreme Court in its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawed school segregation. The busing battles that followed this landmark ruling were the stuff of civil rights lore. But in 1991 the court ruled that school districts could abandon that unpopular strategy and return to neighborhood schooling, even if that meant some schools would resegregate. That's what happened in many districts, and the proportion of black students attending nonwhite-majority schools has increased over the past dozen years from...
...organizations, the Louisville Chamber of Commerce and five former Secretaries of Education have sided with the school district, the Bush Administration has taken up Meredith's cause. The Solicitor General submitted a brief arguing that schools should not be in the business of racial balancing and that even Brown v. Board Ed. declared that public schools should ultimately admit students "on a nonracial basis...