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09/18/2007: "School revival plan causes resegregation"

After white parents in this racially mixed city complained about school overcrowding, school authorities set out to draw up a sweeping rezoning plan. The results: all but a handful of the hundreds of students required to move this fall were black — and many were sent to virtually all-black, low-performing schools.

We’re talking about moving children from good schools into low-performing ones, and that’s illegal,” said Kendra Williams, a hospital receptionist, whose two children were rezoned. “And it’s all about race. It’s as clear as daylight.”

[ It's not illegal unless it occurs because the children are black. We have no proof of that. However, we all know that white parents bail out of black neighborhoods because in their perception, the schools go bad. Multiculturalism works for no one. ]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/education/17schools.html?_r=1&oref=slogin