L.A. can use race as factor in magnet schools

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Los Angeles can continue to seek racial balance in assigning tens of thousands of students to specialized magnet schools despite California's voter-approved ban on race preferences in government programs, a state appeals court has ruled.

Friday's decision by the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles preserves the long-standing desegregation program in the state's largest school district in the face of a challenge by backers of Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure. Lawyers in the case disagreed on whether the ruling could also affect a lawsuit against the use of race in Berkeley school enrollments.

For a school district that's not even 10%,it's sad race would be used as a factor.For those of us who aren't fans of public education:the elimination of magnet schools would be the first step in destroying coerced education.