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The idea is that if left to their own devices, people will resegregate.

They are not sure whether the move is intended to improve schools or resegregate them.

However, as schools resegregate, the gap in performance across racial lines is growing.

It would be impossible, he said, to resegregate public facilities or close down black labor unions.

That is worrisome, he said, because "the schools resegregate first and the neighborhoods tend to follow."

The decision returned control over student assignments to the school district, subject only to the constitutional requirement not to resegregate intentionally.

"Unless you have some schools where integration is a target, the schools inevitably will resegregate," he said.

Blacks have vowed to fight it, charging it would resegregate the city's schools.

If allowed to escape all court orders, its neighborhood schools will resegregate without visible, impermissible help from local government.

The elementary schools quickly began to resegregate along neighborhood lines, with more than half becoming nearly all-black or all-white.

All its propaganda and racial spewings are devised to divide, separate, resegregate.

Doing Without Without affirmative action, many institutions would resegregate.

"We must not resegregate higher education," Mr. Clinton said.

Civil rights leaders say the change could resegregate Louisville's public schools and reverse the benefits of 15 years of court-ordered busing.

Is anyone today suggesting that we resegregate public accommodations, that we have 'colored' and 'white' toilets?

"Assuming the same will likely happen in undergraduate education, we must not resegregate higher education or leave it to the private universities to do the public's work."

Mr. Flake scoffs at the notion that any school he started would resegregate New York City's schools.

In an interview, Mr. Gordon predicted that if Louisville's student assignment plan was overturned, the schools would rapidly resegregate.

Mr. Treurnicht said he would resegregate white neighborhoods and schools and reinstate the passes that blacks needed until recently to enter areas reserved for whites.

Further litigation will be needed, in Oklahoma and elsewhere, to determine whether officials can give up all busing and other remedies when they know that housing patterns will resegregate their schools.

Julius L. Chambers, representing the black parents who brought the case, said the question for the Court was whether the Oklahoma City school district "can now resegregate its black elementary schools."

Civil rights scholars call the legislation the most blatant recent effort in the nation to create segregated school systems or, as in Omaha, to resegregate districts that had been integrated by court order.

What seems to set the blacks apart, the experts say, is that when they move out of one area and into a new one there is a tendency for the new area to resegregate.

Georgia Powers, a former Kentucky State Senator who is black and an active opponent of the proposal, has called it a "smoke screen" to resegregate the schools in a country that has moved toward integration with great reluctance.

Certainly its exposure of the misdiagnosis and misplacement of special education students, its critique of intelligence testing and its documentation of the use of special education classes to resegregate black students deserve a careful reading.