High Court to Consider Use of Race: K-12 Diversity Policies at Issue in Two Cases

Autor/in	Trotter, Andrew
Titel	High Court to Consider Use of Race: K-12 Diversity Policies at Issue in Two Cases
Quelle	In: Education Week, 25 (2006) 40, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Court Litigation; Federal Courts; Student Diversity; Public Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Affirmative Action; Board of Education Policy; Race; Selective Admission; Kentucky; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rechtsstreit; Bundesgerichtshof; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Rasse; Abstammung; Bildungsselektion
Abstract	By accepting two appeals on the voluntary use of race in assigning students to public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide the constitutionality of widespread practices that school districts use to promote diversity. And the decision could affect schools in unforeseen ways. In both cases, parents of white children have challenged plans that have used race as a factor in assigning students to schools. The justices accepted the two cases on June 5, 2006 for the new term that begins in October. The court's decision to take the appeals involving the Jefferson County, Kentucky, and Seattle school systems means the court "is probably looking at the whole universe of the question of diversity in schools," said Francisco M. Negron, Jr., the general counsel of the National School Boards Association, based in Alexandria, Virginia Sharon L. Browne, a lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, based in Sacramento, California, said, "Together, these cases could put an end to schools' using race as a factor to decide where children can attend public school." (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10