As you can see by today's LA Times, and a number of "breaking" stories on the morning News channels, Nebraska's state legislature has voted to divide Omaha's school district along racial lines, dividing it up into de-facto African-American, Latino, and white districts:
http://www.latimes.com/...
In a nation where we are turning back the clock on women's rights, are we also turning back the clock on the civil rights movement?
I noticed that the article quoted the one African-American legislator who is a long-time participant in Nebraska's legislature; but it doesn't really seek out other input from the black community. It is interesting to note, however, that Ernie Chambers is echoing the feelings of NAACP founder WEB DuBois, who at the time of the Brown case argued that black students would be better-served by having their own, well-funded schools, taught by motivated and politically-engaged black teachers.
If schools have rejected busing as a solution, will separating students into separate schools really promote "equal" schools if there is greater access to money? Or is the very fact of separation a promoter of inequality, as Thurgood Marshall argued in the Brown case? I think that Nebraska is making a big mistake here, and I personally would like to see busing intended to level the socioeconomic field--something that I think really would make schools more equal. But parents today hate busing.