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From Urban Institute:

The Government We Deserve is a series of periodic commentaries on the nation's most pressing social and economic issues.

Louisville is back in the news these days because its plan for integrating schools, like Seattle's, was overturned recently by the Supreme Court.

However divided is opinion over this decision, it should force us to look more deeply into what a well-integrated society means and requires.

They merged, and the suburbs basically agreed to work with the inner city on issues ranging from school integration to money per pupil to access to government support services.

Now this may only be one step, but it could matter more to minorities in Louisville than whatever change in its schooling formula the recent Supreme Court decision might trigger.

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