Integration is no longer Seattle school district's top priority
by Linda Shaw
When it came to voluntary school-integration efforts in the late 1970s, Seattle Public Schools was at the forefront. In 1978, Seattle, Wash. became the first large urban district in the nation to undertake a desegregation plan without a court order to do so. Today, however, Seattle district leaders appear resigned to living with the resegregation that's occurred over the past three decades. Resegregation, they say, is a societal problem too big for the district alone to solve.
The Seattle Times, 6/3/2008