Sentence examples for race in school from inspiring English sources

School officials adopted the plan in 1999 in response to legal challenges to the district's use of race in school admissions.

That insight informed his powerful dissent from Roberts's 5-to-4 decision last June striking down the use of race in school enrollment.

Head to an aquatics center in late summer when hordes of teenagers covered in colorful grease paint race in school carnivals that resemble fraternity initiation rites.

In his ruling, Judge Stearns noted that the white parents had won a victory when, in response to their lawsuit, Boston school officials voted to eliminate the use of race in school admissions for the 2000-2001 school year.

"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.

The final blow came in 2007, when the court declared the use of race in school placement unconstitutional.

The Board of Education, an issue of segregation by race in schools and followed by the Americans for Disability Act (ADA).

A state court judge in California has ruled that a school district may consider race in setting school attendance boundaries, setting up the question for an almost certain appeal.

It certainly lacked the more overt manifestations of racism in South Africa, but segregation of the races in schools, hospitals and residential areas was nonetheless the norm, and most of the humiliations of apartheid could be found in abundance.

She was seven years old when she won her first swimming race, in her school pool in Nairobi.

"There's all the pressure to graduate in four years," explains Meighan Ruby, a senior at Drake University who began the race in high school by taking classes at a community college in her hometown, Des Moines.