The California Supreme Court ruled that state school boards bear a constitutional obligation to take reasonable steps to alleviate segregation in public schools whether the segregation was de facto or de jure in origin. That was a higher standard than imposed under federal decisions. Proposition I was passed in California that gave courts the power to order busing only if a federal court would do so to remedy the violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The California Court of Appeals upheld the Proposition I.

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