District News Roundup

Kansas City, Mo., school officials have blamed a sharp drop in the district's white enrollment on a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. The high court ruling forced the district to scale back its ambitious magnet school programs earlier this year. (See Education Week, June 21, 1995.)

The number of white students enrolled in Kansas City schools has dropped by more than 8 percent, to about 8,200, since last year, even though total enrollment rose slightly. White children make up about 22 percent of the 37,200 students enrolled this fall, down from 24 percent last year.

The drop in white student enrollment was the most severe since 1985, when the district began the nation's...