Connecticut town begins to tackle desegregation

More than half a century after the landmark desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Greenwich, Conn., an overwhelmingly white and wealthy town, is beginning to confront the racial imbalance in its neighborhood schools. Greenwich’s new superintendent—who until last summer was the state education commissioner—has vowed to get serious about spreading minority students more equally among the district’s 14 elementary and middle schools, rankling many parents for whom top-notch education without widespread busing was a major incentive to buy expensive homes here.

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