For nearly 30 years, school officials in Charlotte, N.C., have been under court order to consider race when making student assignments. A group of parents filed a lawsuit challenging that policy, seeking the end of busing for desegregation. The case, which has lasted three years and produced two contradictory legal decisions, will be heard by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals tomorrow. Writer Andrea Cooper longs for the day when it's easy to answer the question, "Where is your child going to school?"
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