Word: wessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Public schools faced a major blow in November 1998, when the first circuit court ruled in favor of Sarah Wessman, a white student who claimed that race-based admissions policies illegal denied her admission to the exam-based Boston Latin School...
Willie argued that the recent suit is "substantially different" from the Wessman case and deserves a court battle. "No one got kicked out of school because of their race. No one was harmed," he said. "What we did was guarantee that everyone had to be included...