Fulton County wants court to end desegregation plan

ATLANTA - The Fulton County school system plans to ask the U.S. District Court to end its court-ordered desegregation plan. <br> <br> The school system will ask the court by the end of the month to declare that Fulton schools have achieved unitary status, meaning that the county has eliminated the effects of past segregation. <br> <br> Officials said yesterday that school attendance patterns which concentrate black students in the south part of the county and whites in the north are a result of where families choose to live - not a result of racist policies. <br> <br> Fulton would be the fourth district in Georgia to achieve an end to federal court oversight. Others are DeKalb, Muscogee and Savannah-Chatham. <br> <br> On Monday, North Carolina&#39;s Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools became the most recent to be freed from a desegregation plan. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from a group of black parents who wanted federal supervision to continue.

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