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.

sir thomas more, venerated in the catholic church as saint thomas more, was an english lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted renaissance humanist. he was also a councillor to henry viii, and lord high chancellor of england from october 1529 to 16 may 1532.