Asserts that the rights and liberties of minority children to equal protection under the law and equal access to public facilities and resources are not to be negotiated on the basis of some bit of data. These prerogatives for minority children, and in the final analysis for all of us, exist as a result of the political and moral visions we hold…

Courts and education officials have sought to implement integration plans that would provide creative and imaginative additions to the educational system, but they've been unable to persuade communities that desegregation will enhance school quality. Enrollment statistics show that segregation is actually increasing in some Northern and Western…