February 12, 1999

Boston Schools Won't Appeal Court's Ban on Racial Preferences

Affirmative-action proponents have convinced Boston officials that it would be folly to put racial preferences in school admissions to a vote by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Boston School Committee voted last week not to appeal a federal appeals-court ruling in November that struck down a race-based admissions policy used by three selective public high schools as an unconstitutional violation of the rights of

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