School Assignment

She's up for reelection in November, and two of the three candidates who oppose her are building their campaigns on opposition to the new school-assignment plan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the day of the decision, the crawl at the bottom of the CNN screen informed Pat Todd, Louisville's longtime school-assignment director, that the plan she had worked on for years was unconstitutional. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And school-assignment director Todd acknowledges that one irony of the new system is that schools deemed integrated under the old racial classifications are no longer considered diverse under the geographic criteria. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But after Alito replaced O'Connor, the court agreed to review the challenges to the school-assignment rules in Seattle and Louisville. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While it was important to send an immediate message to staff and the public that the majority was, in fact, going to follow through on its campaign promises, it should have been more clearly stressed that they will be taking plenty of time to gather the necessary information, hear from all affected parties, and then design the detailed plans necessary to bring Wake County's school-assignment policies into the modern era. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The decision could make hundreds of school-assignment plans across the country, including roughly ❋ Unknown (2009)