The Boston Globe runs down the threat posed to Metco, a program that buses minority students from Boston out to some of the whitest suburban schools (including those in my hometown of Newton), by the recent Supreme Court decision that greatly restricts the ability of school districts to use race as a factor in integration efforts. Nothing’s happened (read: no one’s sued) yet, but Metco advocates’ biggest fear is that the court decision will eventually force them to accept white students into the program. If this happens, it could spell of Metco, which has been around for four decades: “Admit white students, suburban superintendents say, and their communities may pull out because the program's purpose was to diversify their predominantly white schools.”

Included is in the obligatory and obligatorily cute picture of a while kid playing with some black kids.