BOSTON'S CHILDREN FIRST v. BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE

FINDINGS OF FACT, RULINGS OF LAW, AND ORDER OF JUDGMENT AFTER A NONJURY TRIAL

STEARNS, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This case may possibly be the concluding chapter in thirty years of litigation over the effort to desegregate the Boston public schools. It began in 1999, when the parents of ten white school children challenged the preferences given to black and other minority students under...