The district also “provided transportation, conducted outreach, and tried to equalize schools so that all seem like good choices, and allowed students to be on multiple school waiting lists,” Frankenberg said.
The plan was devised in the late 1990s in response to limitations imposed by Proposition 209, the state law prohibiting the sole use of race, ethnicity or gender in determining public school enrollment. The Berkeley integration plan was upheld earlier this year by the California Supreme Court.
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