Congressional Digest

Excerpt

(Excerpted from Supreme Court Debates, January 2007)
In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that the principle of “separate but equal” in
public education was inherently unconstitutional. In the decades that
followed, Federal courts instituted mandatory desegregation plans that
required public school districts to bus children, sometimes across
town, to achieve racial balance in their classrooms.
The mandatory desegregation plans were not intended to be
permanent, and over the past decade, many school districts and their
residents have successfully petitioned the courts …