Omaha schools to be split by race - Nation/Politics - insider.washingtontimes.com

I'm not sure how I feel about this. The purported reason is to give minority areas more control over the schools where they are the majority.

Omaha schools to be split by race - Nation/Politics - insider.washingtontimes.com:

"LINCOLN, Neb. -- The Nebraska Legislature voted yesterday to divide the Omaha school system into three districts -- one mostly black, one predominantly white and one largely Hispanic -- in a move decried as state-enforced segregation.
Supporters, including the bill's sponsor and the legislature's only black senator, said the plan would give minorities control over their own school board and ensure that their children are not 'shortchanged' in favor of white youngsters. "

This Washington Times site requires registration, but you can probably find the article elsewhere as the majority of their articles are straight from the AP.

Here's a link to CNN