1.   A task force to be led by School Committee cochair Robert Gittens will devise a new assignment plan, sources said.

2.   But Council President James M. Kelly applauded the ruling as a proper continuation of the legal mindset that rejected the race-based student assignment plan at Boston Latin.

3.   Questions about racial quotas at the exam schools, revisions to the school assignment plan, and violence in school are as much one as the other.

4.   The current student assignment plan, which still relies on transporting students across the city, is an extension of that degraded past.