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Having looked at dozens of amicus briefs, public reports, news stories, and the records in many of this Courts prior cases, which together span 50 years of desegregation history in school districts across the Nation, I have discovered many examples of districts that sought integration through explicitly race-conscious methods, including mandatory busing. 458 U. S., at 472, n.15. [Footnote 17] Instead, the dissent suggests that some combination of the development of these plans over time, the difficulty of the endeavor, and the good faith of the districts suffices to demonstrate that these stark and controlling racial classifications are constitutional. 1, 458 U. S. 457, 461466 (1982). Bowen & Bok 155. What other numbers are the boards to use as a starting point? 6, 39 Ill. 2d 593, 597598, 237 N.E. 2d 498, 501 (1968) (citations omitted) (citing decisions from the high courts of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, New York, and Connecticut, and from the Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Fourth, and Sixth Circuits). That determination typically will not be nearly as difficult as the dissent makes it seem. 2, 2001). Hundreds of state and federal statutes and regulations use racial classifications for educational or other purposes. by it. Compare Croson, 488 U. S., at 519 (Kennedy, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment) (racial classifications permitted only as a last resort). The Court deferred to local authorities in making its determination, noting that in inquiring into reasonableness there must necessarily be a large discretion on the part of the legislature. Ibid. In due course, the Washington Supreme Court, the Federal District Court, and the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (sitting en banc) rejected the challenge and found Seattles plan lawful. The long history of their efforts reveals the complexities and difficulties they have faced. 2001) (describing President Nixons lobbying for affirmative action plans, e.g., the Philadelphia Plan); White, Affirmative Actions Alamo: Gerald Ford Returns to Fight Once More for Michigan, Time, Aug. 23, 1999, p. 48 (reporting on President Fords support for affirmative action); Schuck, Affirmative Action: Past, Present, and Future, 20 Yale L. & Poly Rev. Is racial diversity a compelling interest that can justify the use of race in selecting students for admission to public high schools? in Davis v. County School Board, O.T. 1952, No. But that length is necessary. As the Court explained, [t]he importance of this individualized consideration in the context of a race-conscious admissions program is paramount. Ibid. Rather, race-based government decisionmaking is categorically prohibited unless narrowly tailored to serve a compelling interest. The Western District of Washington dismissed the suit, upholding the tiebreaker. See, e.g., Hallinan 745; Quillian & Campbell, Beyond Black and White: The Present and Future of Multiracial Friendship Segregation, 68 Am. For the next decade, annual program transfers remained at approximately this level. . (This Nation has a moral and ethical obligation to fulfill its historic commitment to creating an integrated society that ensures equal opportunity for all of its children). 377 F.3d at 959. First, the school districts plans serve compelling interests and are narrowly tailored on any reasonable definition of those terms. See Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U. S. 306, 351354 (2003) (Thomas, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). Copy_of_SCOTUS_COMPARISON_QUESTION_TEST_v3_ - SCOTUS - Course Hero To McDaniel? 6. Studies suggest that children taken from those schools and placed in integrated settings often show positive academic gains. For this reason, among others, I do not join Parts IIIB and IV. This Nation has a moral and ethical obligation to fulfill its historic commitment to creating an integrated society that ensures equal opportunity for all of its children. [Footnote 5] Rejecting arguments comparable to those that the plurality accepts today,[Footnote 6] that court noted: It would be the height of irony if the racial imbalance act, enacted as it was with the laudable purpose of achieving equal educational opportunities, should, by prescribing school pupil allocations based on race, founder on unsuspected shoals in the Fourteenth Amendment. Id., at 698, 227 N.E. 2d, at 733 (footnote omitted). PICS contends that while in Grutter the Court recognized diversity in a holistic sense as a compelling interest, it specifically held that mere racial diversity is not a compelling government interest. The limitation of this power to instances where there has been de jure segregation serves to confine the nature, extent, and duration of governmental reliance on individual racial classifications. 5. The school boards widespread consultation, their experimentation with numerous other plans, indeed, the 40-year history that Part I sets forth, make clear that plans that are less explicitly race-based are unlikely to achieve the boards compelling objectives. Consequently, the Courts decision today slows down and sets back the work of local school boards to bring about racially diverse schools. 439 U. S., at 1383. If a school district has an interest in teaching racial understanding and cooperation, there is no logical reason why that interest should not extend to the composition of the teaching staff as well as the composition of the student body. Race is not. In the Seattle case, the school district has gone further in describing the methods and criteria used to determine assignment decisions based on individual racial classifications, but it has nevertheless failed to explain why, in a district composed of a diversity of races, with only a minority of the students classified as white, it has employed the crude racial categories of white and non-white as the basis for its assignment decisions. Because attending Ingraham would have placed a burden on the family and would have limited the students ability to participate in after school activities of their choice, both parents elected to send their children to parochial high schools. Although black students made up about 3% of the total Seattle population in the mid-1950s, nearly all black children attended schools where a majority of the population was minority. That Swanns legal statement should find such broad acceptance is not surprising. [I]ntegration, we are told, has three essential elements. Ibid. The following notice, published in a Louisville newspaper in 1976, gives a sense of how the districts race-based busing plan operated in practice: Louisville Courier Journal, June 18, 1976 (reproduced in J. Wilkinson, From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court and School Integration 19541978, p. 176 (1979)). The practice can lead to corrosive discourse, where race serves not as an element of our diverse heritage but instead as a bargaining chip in the political process. It added that the fact that a law treats [a person] unequally because of his or her race . There is nothing technical or theoretical, post, at 30, about our approach to such dicta. We relied on the fact that Congress has continuously since 1862 segregated its schools in the District of Columbia); Brief for Appellees in Briggs v. Elliott, O.T. 1952, No. App. In design and operation, the plans are directed only to racial balance, pure and simple, an objective this Court has repeatedly condemned as illegitimate. First, as demonstrated above, the two concepts are distinct. The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. Wash. Rev. Dist. Each locality is free to tailor local programs to local needs. Doubtless, hundreds of letters like this went out from both school boards every year these race-based assignment plans were in operation. By and large, public education in our Nation is committed to the control of state and local authorities); Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U. S. 294, 299 (1955) (Brown II) (Full implementation of these constitutional principles may require solution of varied local school problems. One approach, reflected in the . 6704 (WD Wash., 1969), pp. Rather, the Court has insisted upon some showing of prior discrimination by the governmental unit involved before allowing limited use of racial classifications in order to remedy such discrimination. The Courts decision in Croson, supra, reinforced the difference between the remedies available to redress de facto and de jure discrimination: To accept [a] claim that past societal discrimination alone can serve as the basis for rigid racial preferences would be to open the door to competing claims for remedial relief for every disadvantaged group. 1.9 In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. The suggestion that our decision today is somehow inconsistent with our disposition of that appeal is belied by the fact that neither the lower courts, the respondent school districts, nor any of their 51 amici saw fit even to cite the case. 67759, at 9 (Unlike the Massachusetts Court, the Illinois Supreme Court has recently held its law to eliminate racial imbalance unconstitutional on the ground that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment); ibid., n.1. When litigation, as here, involves a complex, comprehensive plan that contains multiple strategies for achieving racially integrated schools, Brief for Respondents in No. Brief for Petitioner at 79. 4 Id., at 1516; Memorandum from Stephen W. Daeschner, Superintendent, to the Board of Education, Jefferson Cty. Consequently, the demographics of a neighborhood school would also be the consequence of those individual choices. We are not social engineers. Ohio adds that a district may object to the enrollment of a native student in an adjacent or other district in order to maintain an appropriate racial balance. 3313.98 (F)(1)(a). 2. Diversity, depending on its meaning and definition, is a compelling educational goal a school district may pursue. R. Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black Americas Struggle for Equality, p. x (1975) (arguing that perhaps no other Supreme Court case has affected more directly the minds, hearts, and daily lives of so many Americans); Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education xxvii (2001) (identifying Brown as the most eagerly awaited and dramatic judicial decision of modern times). While the focus of our opinions is often on the benefits that minority schoolchildren receive from an integrated education, see, e.g., ante, at 15 (Thomas, J., concurring), children of all races benefit from integrated classrooms and playgrounds, see Wygant, 476 U. S., at 316 ([T]he fact that persons of different races do, indeed, have differently colored skin, may give rise to a belief that there is some significant difference between such persons. Given that state law had previously required the school board to maintain a dual school system, the county was obligated to take measures to remedy its prior de jure segregation. Not everyone welcomed this Courts decision in Brown. It was not the inequality of the facilities but the fact of legally separating children on the basis of race on which the Court relied to find a constitutional violation in 1954. Part IV (again joined only by a plurality of the Court) addressed Justice Breyer's dissent. Gratz, supra, at 301 (Ginsburg, J., dissenting); Adarand, supra, at 243 (Stevens, J., dissenting); Carter, When Victims Happen To Be Black, 97 Yale L.J. Jefferson County estimates that the racial guidelines account for only 3 percent of assignments. Therefore, even supposing interracial contact leads directly to improvements in racial attitudes and race relations, a program that assigns students of different races to the same schools might not capture those benefits. My views do not allow me to join the balance of the opinion by The Chief Justice, which seems to me to be inconsistent in both its approach and its implications with the history, meaning, and reach of the Equal Protection Clause. Pp. The Court recognized that seeking diversity and avoiding racial segregation in schools are compelling state interests. As a threshold matter, we must assure ourselves of our jurisdiction. Second, in Croson, the Court appeared willing to authorize a government unit to remedy past discrimination for which it was responsible. Regardless of the outcome, this decision will surely have an effect on public schools, be it in the composition of their student body, their admissions policies, or their educational approach generally. 1 is an important case to educators, parents and students. Public Schools, 330 F.Supp. The plurality opinion is too dismissive of the legitimate interest government has in ensuring all people have equal opportunity regardless of their race. And what of laws concern to diminish and peacefully settle conflict among the Nations people? For his part, Justice Thomas faults my citation of various studies supporting the view that school districts can find compelling educational and civic interests in integrating their public schools. Section 5. 2d 753, 756, and nn. See also, e.g., Darville v. Dade County School Bd., 497 F.2d 1002, 10041006 (CA5 1974); State ex rel. In both cases the efforts were in part remedial. See App. of Boston v. Board of Education, 352 Mass. On the other hand race-conscious measures that do not rely on differential treatment based on individual classifications present these problems to a lesser degree. That point was challenged in Justice Breyer's dissent (joined by Stevens, Souter and Ginsberg). The Court was exceedingly careful in describing the interest furthered in Grutter as not an interest in simple ethnic diversity but rather a far broader array of qualifications and characteristics in which race was but a single element. The dissent accuses me of feel[ing] confident that, to end invidious discrimination, one must end all governmental use of race-conscious criteria and chastises me for not deferring to democratically elected majorities. 254, 256, 261 (1956) (40 of Kentuckys 180 school districts began desegre- Because students often attend schools closest to their homes, the result is racially segregated schools. (2007) No one claims that (the relevant portion of) Louisvilles plan was unlawful in 1996 when Louisville adopted it. Id., at 21. Today, however, the Court restricts (and some Members would eliminate) that leeway. Cf. But what about Seattles? of Ed., 402 U. S., at 16far more heavily than the school districts themselves. Id. How does one tell when a racial classification is invidious? 111116 (1974) (same). Not even the school districts go this far, and for good reason. See N. St. John, School Desegregation Outcomes for Children 6768 (1975) (A glance at [the data] shows that for either race positive findings are less common than negative findings); Stephan, The Effects of School Desegregation: An Evaluation 30 Years After Brown, in Advances in Applied Social Psychology 183186 (M. Saks & L. Saxe eds. The first case started in 1998 when five African American high school students sued JCPS to allow them to attend Central High School, a magnet school. Research suggests, for example, that black children from segregated educational environments significantly increase their achievement levels once they are placed in a more integrated setting. of Boston v. Board of Education, O.T. 1967, No. Because the Constitution emphatically does not forbid the use of race-conscious measures by districts in the South that voluntarily desegregated their schools, on what basis does the plurality claim that the law forbids Seattle to do the same? Segregation is not the only possible explanation for a racial imbalance, and there may be no educational benefit from diversity that is artificially created. 05908, at 3942; Research, Evaluation and Assessment, Student Information Services Office, Seattle Public Schools Data Profile: DistrictSummary December 2005, online at http://www.seattleschools.org/ Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle Schools (2007 See Brief for Petitioner at 45. of Ed., 102 F.Supp. But the Seattle schools had never been segregated by law; and the Kentucky schools, though previously segregated by law, had their desegregation decree dissolved by a District Court in 2000 on the finding the school district had "eliminated the vestiges associated with the former policy of segregation and its pernicious effects". 05915, at 7 (quoting McFarland I, supra, at 842). The Court in Grutter expressly articulated key limitations on its holdingdefining a specific type of broad-based diversity and noting the unique context of higher educationbut these limitations were largely disregarded by the lower courts in extending Grutter to uphold race-based assignments in elementary and secondary schools. . Regardless, the plurality cannot object that the constitutional defect is the individualized use of race and simultaneously object that not enough account of individuals race has been taken. In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), relied on by the Court in Gratz, Justice Powell, in a plurality opinion, stated that preferring members of one group for no reasons other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake, and therefore unlawful. Siqueland 116117. Here, in contrast, the schools worked backward to achieve a particular type of racial balance, rather than working forward from some demonstration of the level of diversity that provides the purported benefits. Percentage of White Students in Schools Attended by the Average Black Student, 19682000. 05908, at 276a. 3. Notwithstanding these concerns, allocation of benefits and burdens through individual racial classifications was found sometimes permissible in the context of remedies for de jure wrong. (PDF) Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District Seattles circumstances are not meaningfully different from those in, say, McDaniel, where this Court approved race-conscious remedies. of New Kent Cty., 391 U. S. 430, 441442 (1968). In 2000, for example, Roosevelt was the most popular first choice high school in Seattle; in 2001, Ballard was the most popular; in 2000, West Seattle was one of the least popular; by 2003, it was one of the more popular. in No. Part IB, supra. Franklin in 20052006 was 48.9 percent Asian-American, 33.5 percent African-American, 6.6 percent Latino, 10.2 percent Caucasian, and 0.8 percent Native-American. This Court has carved out a narrow exception to that general rule for cases in which a school district has a history of maintaining two sets of schools in a single school system deliberately operated to carry out a governmental policy to separate pupils in schools solely on the basis of race.[Footnote 4] See Swann, 402 U. S., at 56. See Lochner v. New York, 198 U. S. 45, 75 (1905) (Holmes, J., dissenting) (The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencers Social Statics). See also Parents Involved VII, 426 F.3d, at 1222 (Bea, J., dissenting) (The way to end racial discrimination is to stop discriminating by race). For Swann is predicated upon a well-established legal view of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No.1 (2007), the Supreme Court ruled that O public school policies that assigned students to a school on the basis of race were constitutional. See, e.g., Brief for Kansas on Reargument in Brown v. Board of Education, O.T. 1953, No. Const., Art. The Founders meant the Constitution as a practical document that would transmit its basic values to future generations through principles that remained workable over time. During and just after World War II, significant numbers of black Americans began to make Seattle their home. The amicus briefs in the cases before us mirror this divergence of opinion. 1117, 2528. [S]chool authorities, the Court said, have wide discretion in formulating school policy, and . [Footnote 18]. Sixteen years into the plan, 14 of 19 middle and high schools remained almost totally white or almost totally black. The dissent refers to an opinion filed by Judge Kozinski in one of the cases now before us, and that opinion relied upon an opinion filed by Chief Judge Boudin in a case presenting an issue similar to the one here. Crude measures of this sort threaten to reduce children to racial chits valued and traded according to one schools supply and anothers demand. No. Achieving racially balanced school districts does not amount to a compelling government interest that satisfies strict scrutiny. Unlike todays decision, they were also entirely loyal to Brown. in No. at 11 and Brief of Historians of the Civil Rights Era William H. Chafe, Davison Douglas, Charles Payne, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Kenneth Mack, Risa Goluboff, Kevin Kruse and Matt Lassiter as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents at 23. Because this Court has authorized and required race-based remedial measures to address de jure segregation, it is important to define segregation clearly and to distinguish it from racial imbalance. After assignment, students at all grade levels are permitted to apply to transfer between nonmagnet schools in the district. Thus, in respect to race-conscious desegregation measures that the Constitution permitted, but did not require (measures similar to those at issue here), this Court unanimously stated: School authorities are traditionally charged with broad power to formulate and implement educational policy and might well conclude, for example, that in order to prepare students to live in a pluralistic society each school should have a prescribed ratio of Negro to white students reflecting the proportion for the district as a whole.

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