Empowerment Through Segregation?

The plight of public schools, especially as the fall-out traces racial lines, is of obvious concern to the Catholic legal theory project.  Perhaps it's because my grandfather was a public high school principal in Omaha for many years, but I'm fascinated (and perplexed) by that city's effort to reshuffle the deck by bringing race to the foreground, as reported by the New York Times here (with comments from Yale law prof Jack Balkin here).

Rob