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A crusading jurist ostracized in his native New Orleans for his support of civil rights, Wright ruled in June 1967 that school officials presided over a resegregated system that unconstitutionally deprived Washington’s poor and black students of their “right to equal educational opportunity.” In a scathing 118-page decision, he condemned the system’s neighborhood school policy, which helped maintain racially and economically segregated schools that “damage the minds and spirit of all children who attend them.”
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Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Decommissioning just 1 percent of Forest Service roads each year for a quarter-century, scientists have calculated, would increase wildlife habitat by around 25 percent.
Our study found that more than 75% of the urban innovations that have successfully reduced car use were led by a local city government – and in particular, those that have proved most effective, such as congestion charges, parking and traffic controls, and limited traffic zones.
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