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Court Decisions The Civil Rights Project works at the cutting edge of policy research and strategy development. Response to U.S. Supreme Court decision about voluntary school integration The Supreme Court has issued its first major decision on school desegregation in twelve years, a decision affirming the goal of integrated education as a compelling interest but rejecting the means many school districts use to maintain some integration in a rapidly resegregating society. June 28, 2007. Learn
more America’s colleges and universities were big
winners in Monday’s Supreme Court decisions, and now have
the opportunity to pursue appropriate measures that take advantage
of those victories.
The rulings, which recognize the educational benefits of diversity
and validate reasonable means by which to achieve that diversity,
reaffirm support for affirmative action and endorse university
rights to consider the full range of qualities that promising students
bring to the table. June 25, 2003. Learn
more Joint Statement of Constitutional Law Scholars Affirmative action in higher education is alive and
well. In today’s
decisions involving the University of Michigan’s race-conscious
affirmative action policies, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued
a ringing endorsement of the value of diversity in preparing students
for the challenges of American life. As the Court stated in Grutter
v. Bollinger: “Effective participation by members of all
racial and ethnic groups in the civic life of our Nation is essential
if the dream of one Nation, indivisible, is to be realized.” The
Court has also provided a clear statement about the appropriate
use of race in admissions, holding that the individualized consideration
of race must be the hallmark of a carefully designed admissions
policy that promotes educational diversity. June 23, 2003. Learn
more Voluntary Desegregation Plan Using Race As A Factor In Assigning Children To Public Schools Upheld On June 6, 2003, the Federal District Court of Massachusetts ruled
that the Lynn School District’s voluntary desegregation plan
that considers race as a factor in assigning children to K-12 public
schools was constitutional. June 6, 2003. Learn
more In the spring of 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court
will hear arguments in two cases that will profoundly impact
the
future of affirmative action in higher education. The lawsuits
against the University of Michigan’s Law School (Grutter
v. Bollinger)
and the undergraduate College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
(Gratz v. Bollinger), both challenge policies that
consider race/ethnicity as one factor among many in their admissions
decisions.
The decisions handed down in these cases, to be heard concurrently,
will affect access to colleges and universities for minority
students
for years to come. January 13, 2003. Learn
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