Chester Finn, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, disputes the tragedy Orfield and his colleagues find in the numbers. They care if their child is going to a safe school that teaches them to read and write. This is 1997 . . . According to the paper, the court order originally was issued by U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins, who continues to monitor the district. Last year's election of four new board members is the impetus of the discussions to end racial busing.
Nobody wants to get on the bus.
It's a tangle. But most schools are single-race already, so it can't get much worse. How to deal with that needs to be fought out in the political arena, not the courts. It's time for all that to end. A demonstration of the new product line by local elementary school students followed the press conference.