California Supreme Court rejects challenge of Berkeley school enrollment policy

From The San Francisco Chronicle: In a victory for advocates of school integration, the California Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Berkeley Unified School District's policy of considering the racial composition of students' neighborhoods in deciding where they will enroll. The court declined to review of an appeal by backers of Proposition 209, the 1996 initiative that outlawed racial preferences in public education. The First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco ruled in March that the Berkeley district was not violating Prop. 209 because it based enrollment decisions on the diversity of a student's neighborhood, not an individual student's race.