WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether skin color can be considered in assigning children to public schools, reopening the issue of affirmative action. The announcement puts a contentious social topic on the national landscape in an election year, and tests the conservatism of President Bush's two new justices.

The outcome could mark a new chapter for a court that famously banned racial segregation in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

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Isn't this about 50 years past being resolved?