High Court Leaves Michigan Cases Intact

Autor/in	Schmidt, Peter
Titel	High Court Leaves Michigan Cases Intact
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 53 (2007) 44, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Affirmative Action; Court Litigation; School Desegregation; Racial Integration; College Admission; Public Schools; School Districts; Elementary Secondary Education; Student Placement; Educational Benefits; Kentucky; Michigan; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rechtsstreit; Integrative Schule; Rassenintegration; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; School district; Schulbezirk; Schülerpraktikum; Bildungsertrag
Abstract	This article reports on a U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down two voluntary school-integration plans in a 5-to-4 ruling issued last week. Its decision left solidly intact its precedents dealing with affirmative action in higher education. Rather than signaling any clear desire to revisit its past decisions on race-conscious admissions policies--as some conservative groups had urged it to do--the court majority cited those precedents repeatedly as justification for holding that the school-integration policies in the case violated the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law. Education lawyers, as well as both supporters and critics of affirmative action, said the court's decision would prompt many public-school districts to alter policies they had adopted for the sake of promoting racial integration. But they said it did not significantly change the law governing colleges' use of race-conscious policies in admissions and other areas. It mainly just reaffirmed that colleges must seriously consider race-neutral alternatives, must not put too much weight on race or ethnicity, and must show that such policies have educational benefits. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Chronicle of Higher Education. 1255 23rd Street NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20037. Tel: 800-728-2803; e-mail: circulation@chronicle.com; Web site: http://chronicle.com/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10