This from C-J:
Attendance guide has broad base The Jefferson County Board of Education will decide tonight whether to move forward with an integration plan that would use race, income and education in assigning children to schools.
Under the proposal, all schools -- elementary, middle and high -- must enroll at least 15 percent and no more than
50 percent of their students from neighborhoods that have income and education levels below the district average and higher-than-average numbers of minorities...
...Some national desegregation experts predict the plan
will withstand legal challenges and keep schools from becoming racially or socioeconomically segregated.But Alan Foutz, senior attorney for California's Pacific Legal Foundation, which is challenging a similar plan in Berkeley,
Calif., said he believes both plans are simply a proxy for using race in making student assignments, and are unconstitutional.
And Teddy Gordon, the Louisville lawyer who forced the district to drop its previous desegregation policy, agreed, saying in a statement yesterday that the plan "will be
challengeable." ...
...Then, district officials expanded its definition of diversity to include not only race, but also education and income level. It measured the average household income, education level and minority population of elementary school enrollment areas, based on U.S. Census data.
It decided that every school must have at least 15 percent and no more than 50 percent of it students from enrollment areas where the average household income among school families was below $41,000; the average education level was less than a high-school diploma with some college; and minority student population was more than 48 percent...
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