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When population shifts occur — brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school desegregation rulings — political power is challenged as well," Ifill writes.

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The deal kept intact the landmark school financing formula that was created last year by Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the Legislature in response to a long-running lawsuit over disparities in education spending in poorer districts.

The awards were established in 2004 by Alphonse Fletcher Jr., the founder of Fletcher Asset Management, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation decision.

Before that, he worked for the Community Service Society in New York City and the Education Law Center in Newark, NJ, where he helped to litigate the landmark school finance case, Abbott v. Burke.

A1 Dance School to Reopen Dance Theater of Harlem, a financially troubled company, said it would reopen its landmark school on Saturday, thanks to $1.6 million in newly raised donations -- nearly a third of that attributed to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

Mr. Daiker was an education lawyer best known for arguing a landmark school-prayer case before the United States Supreme Court in 1962.

Her father, Wayne, a sociology and education professor and, later, a dean at U.C.L.A., wrote an early study of high-school social systems and testified at a landmark school-segregation trial.

As a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union, he did preparatory work for what became a landmark school-prayer case in 1963, that of Ellory Schempp against a school district in a Philadelphia suburb.

A century ago Gilded Age patrons, inspired by progressive ideas, enlisted lions of Beaux-Arts architecture to devise landmark schools, firehouses and police stations throughout the city.

Sheff v. O'Neill, Hartford's landmark schools case, is back in court in an effort to press the state to move faster to lessen racial isolation in the city's schools.