Sentence examples for race assignments from inspiring English sources

Secondly, blind people experience greater uncertainty in their race assignments.

Only in handicaps are weights assigned arbitrarily; in most races, weight assignments are based on age and conditions.

In a 2007 case involving the Seattle public schools, he cast the deciding vote with the conservatives in a 5-to-4 decision against letting the school system take account of a student's race in assignment of students to achieve or maintain diversity in each school.

After the city negotiated an end to race-based assignments in 1978, Mr. Arricale said, "I felt I had to go along with the racial placements in order not to lose millions of dollars to youngsters, but at the same time I was revolted and offended by the procedure".

He had been racing through assignments, trying to make up credits in time for graduation.

The United States also alleged in documents that Cleveland reinforced the racial identity of its schools through the race-based assignment of faculty and staff to district schools.

Moreover, it follows decisions by the Roberts court that limited the use of race in school assignments and ordered lower courts to take a closer look at the use of race in admission decisions at the University of Texas.

But in 1999 Federal District Court Judge Robert Potter — who as a private citizen had been active in the anti-busing movement of the nineteen-sixties — ordered the district to stop using race in pupil assignments.

"This is a firm line that we can hold onto, that a race-neutral policy intended to promote parental choice and diversity is constitutionally permissible," Ms. Cohen said, noting that in the past two decades federal courts have increasingly ruled against the use of race in school assignments.

But conservative activists looking at the political consequences of the past term say the public is ambivalent about the two rulings that have most marked the court's turn to the right -- upholding the ban on the procedure sometimes called partial-birth abortion and restricting the use of race in school assignments.

Under the ruling, race-based student assignments are to end for the next school year.