Judge Spurns Indianapolis Bid To Recover Bused Students

The Indianapolis schools last week appealed a federal judge's rejection of the district's bid to bring home 5,500 black students who are bused to the suburbs under a 16-year-old court order.

U.S. District Judge S. Hugh Dillin ruled Feb. 27 that the arrangement that sends black students from within the city district's boundaries to one of six predominantly white townships should continue permanently.

Although those suburbs originally resisted Judge Dillin's orders to accept inner-city black students, they are now...