Exclusive Boston Public Schools Survive Second Race Bias Suit (1)

A second race-bias challenge to changes in Boston’s admission criteria to its elite public exam schools fared no better than the first, as a federal judge Thursday dismissed the case.

US District Judge William G. Young put to writing concerns he expressed at a hearing weeks ago that there didn’t appear to be much different in the Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp.'s complaint that the city’s tiered admissions plan for the trio of public schools disadvantages white and Asian American students.

The cases count among the many filed in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s striking down ...