The Color of Education
In this coming Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, law professor, JEFFREY ROSEN writes about the upcoming Seattle and Louisville schools cases that are due to come before the Supreme Court before the end of the year.
“In its brief,” writes Rosen, “the Bush administration urged the justices to draw an inflexible line: ‘race-conscious measures’ designed to address ‘racial imbalance in communities or student bodies’ are just as unconstitutional as the segregation struck down in Brown v. Board of Education. This extreme colorblind position, if the court adopted it, could affect as many as 1,000 districts in the country that have concluded that some racial balancing in admissions is the only way to maintain meaningful racial integration.”