"Something similar was tried in the South and shot down by the Supreme Court.... Presumably this was combined with less money going to schools that had more than average numbers of black students."
Richard,
In the Jim Crow south, there was no such thing as a school with "more than average numbers of black students." Schools were segregated. They were all black or all white. Period. Poll taxes were finally made illegal in the civil rights act of 1964, I believe. School segregation stopped being legal with Brown v. Board of Ed in 1954, but as you probably know it took years to get some real semblance of integration. There has been a fair bit of backsliding over the past twenty years in getting schools integrated, as some people say that since we don't have racial problems anymore, there should be NO discrimination whatsoever on the basis of color. Including of course any busing or taking race into account in admissions anywhere, whether it be universities or magnet primary or secondary schools. Its good to know that we now have such a race-blind society with equal opportunity for all and that we made such huge progress between 1954 and the 1980s, when people started declaring that such race based quotes were unnecessary. We're an amazing country, to be sure.
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