RECENT U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS:
LINKS OF INTEREST
NEWS
The critics ofParents Involved In Community Schools v. Seattle School District1 decision ignore the
fact that the decision applies only to school systems where there has been no segregation or where
segregation was corrected and the desegregation decree dissolved. In such instances what the Majority
is saying is that race may not be the determinative factor in a child's assignment to a school. The Court
has held since Brown v. Board of Education that a race conscious remedy may only be used to cure
intentional racial discrimination. Any doubt concerning this was removed by the Court's decision in
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978).
fact that the decision applies only to school systems where there has been no segregation or where
segregation was corrected and the desegregation decree dissolved. In such instances what the Majority
is saying is that race may not be the determinative factor in a child's assignment to a school. The Court
has held since Brown v. Board of Education that a race conscious remedy may only be used to cure
intentional racial discrimination. Any doubt concerning this was removed by the Court's decision in
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978).
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