Seventeen-year-old Quantae Williams doesn"t understand why the U. S. Supreme Court struck down his school district"s racial diversity program. He now
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the prospect of leaving his mixed-race high school in suburban Louisville and
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to the poor black downtown schools where he
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in fights. "I"m doing
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in town. They should just leave it the
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it is," said Williams, using a fond nickname for suburban Jeffersontown High School,
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he"s bused every day from his downtown neighborhood. "Everything is
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, we get along well. If I go where all my friends go, I"ll start getting in trouble again," Williams said as he took a
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from his summer job
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clothing
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for poor families.
Last month"s 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court struck down programs that were started voluntarily in Louisville and Seattle. The court"s decision has left schools
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the country
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to find a way to protect
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in their classrooms. Critics have called the decision the biggest
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to the ideals of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education
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, which outlawed racial segregation in U. S. public schools. With students already
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to schools for the
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year that begins in September,
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will be immediately affected by the Supreme Court decision. In Jefferson County, officials said it could be two years
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a new plan is
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place, leaving most students in their current schools.