... of a seven year old sued the Montgomery County School Board after their son was barred from transferring to a math and science magnet school because it would reduce the proportion of whites in his old school." Also in Northern Virginia's Arlington County, "parents of two white children who lost a lottery for admission to an alternative kindergarten sued because lottery was weighted in ... be able to use race as a factor in deciding which students can participate in gifted programs. His said it was "wrong to allow minority students with lower IQ scores than whites and Asians to be admitt...

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... programs that recruit black students contribute to "the significant number of black students dropping and failing out of colleges that they are unprepared to academically complete [Tur03]." The retention rate among minorities is unsettling: while 59% of whites graduate within six years of enrolling in college, only 38% of blacks and 46% of Hispanics do the same. Minority students are ... ...

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