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SCHOOL DISTRICTS, PARENTS and advocates across the country are awaiting what could be a historic decision from the Supreme Court on racial integration in schools. In December 2006, justices heard arguments in lawsuits brought by white parents who charged that school districts in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky had discriminated against their children. In the Seattle case, a white mom sued after her daughter was blocked from attending the high school she wanted. The school district had used race, among other factors, to select students when too many of them applied to the same school. In Louisville, the school board had a voluntary desegregation program that ...