Race-Based Busing Case Is Reversed

A federal appeals court ruled that the Charlotte, N.C., school system failed to end traces of racial segregation more than three decades after African American parents first won a court order to integrate its public schools. The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., reversed a lower court ruling that the school system, the nation’s 23rd largest with more than 108,000 students, should end race-based busing, throwing a plan allowing parents to choose their children’s schools into question. African American parents contended that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County school board failed to provide equal educational opportunities for black students.