As a follow-up to the Supreme Court rulings in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954, 1955), in which the Court found that it was unconstitutional to maintain separate schools for children on the basis of race, the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that school districts may no longer:
A. use race as a factor in deciding how to assign students to schools.
B. renew employment contracts with teachers who are written up for racial bias in the classroom.
C. be fully funded if one ethnicity comprises more than 65 percent of the entire student body.
D. draw students from different neighborhoods (bus students to school).
Ans: A. use race as a factor in deciding how to assign students to schools.
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