The ruling in brown v. board of education did not immediately end segregation in public schools because
northern states refused to follow it.
the supreme court did not offer a new policy.
southern states closed all their public schools.
the supreme court could not agree on a new policy.

The correct option is: "the Supreme Court did not offer a new policy."

Case Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, 1954, is a landmark judicial ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that stated that state laws that established separate schools for African-American and white students denied equal educational opportunities.

The ruling was delivered on May 17, 1954, unanimously (9-0) by the Warren Court; and established that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal". With this, the Supreme Court reversed the existing precedents from Plessy against Ferguson in 1896. As a result of this ruling, racial segregation came to be considered as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. . This ruling opened the way for racial integration and achieving civil rights for African Americans.

a nationwide discount program is implemented.

explanation:

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts