An additional $2 billion a year is needed to correct disparities in school spending, say several education officials and state lawmakers.

Mr. Bruck called the arrangement "a high-tech lynching," and added: "About all you can say about South Carolina's efforts to correct racial disparities in this case is that Tony Cimo served six more months than he would have half a century ago.

A judge in Boston drew scorn for equalizing the allotment of basketballs - the kind of step forced by local unwillingness to correct gross disparities in school spending between black and white neighborhoods.

Congress ordered a study by the Sentencing Commission, a body created to correct disparities like these.

Set alongside the regional impact of other EC policies, notably CAP, the ability of the regional funds to make progress towards correcting spatial disparities was severely restricted.

Now the courts, educators and members of the Yonkers branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are focusing on a second stage of the school desegregation plan to correct disparities in achievement, although that is not happening smoothly or without incident.

The July brief argued that there was no "independent obligation flowing from the Constitution to correct disparities" between the historically black and white universities in financing, programs or sites.

Under the order, the Superfund program would have to correct disparities in the pace of cleaning up those sites.

I believe State aid to be a flexibility instrument that is crucial to correcting disparities and to addressing specific problems under European competition rules, which means that the legitimacy of its use should never be questioned, although it must be undertaken in a moderate and justifiable way.

I've passed fixes to our Medicare reimbursement structure, to correct long-standing geographic disparities that have penalized Iowa doctors, hospitals, and health providers for years.