As school districts try to interpret last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, editorial pages across the country have offered the following opinions:
The two major newspapers covering the districts in the case were split. The Seattle Times ; Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader said it was
Elsewhere, the , the , the Minneapolis , and Raleigh’s minced no words in their opposition to the 5-4 decision. and the both called it a step backwards, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found the majority opinion
On the other side, Denver’s Rocky Mountain News called the decision and The San Diego Union-Tribune characterized it as a
Kennedy’s opinion opens the door for more legal action, The Plain Dealer . Until then, The Oregonian tells districts to “look for new ways to fight inequality.”
said The Des Moines Register, while also offering .
Columnists offered their own take. The Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson ; Seattle’s Danny Westneat found himself ; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Jim Wooten thinks ; and St. Petersburg’s Thomas C. Tobin wrote about .