Supreme Court decision helps renewed resegregation efforts

Last spring, town officials in Milton, Massachusetts, an affluent Boston suburb changed the elementary–school assignments for 38 streets—and sparked outrage. Some white students had been reassigned to Tucker, a mostly black school which has historically had Milton’s lowest test scores. Kevin Keating, a white parent of a reassigned student, is talking to lawyers about going to court to reverse the plan. I “just don’t feel good putting [my son] in an inferior school,” he says. His ammunition: the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling that consideration of race in school assignments is unconstitutional. Without the backing of the Supreme Court, Keating says his effort wouldn't have “much of a standing.” Read the article in The Wall Street Journal.