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05915, 416 F.3d 513, reversed and remanded. There are again studies that offer contrary conclusions. Schools frequently group students by academic ability as an aid to efficient instruction, but such groupings often result in classrooms with high concentrations of one race or another. The board estimated that its new plan would lead to annual reassignment (with busing) of about 8,500 black students and about 8,000 white students. Before the merits of the case can be addressed, the Court first has to address the Districts jurisdictional challenge that no case or controversy exists within the Constitutional sense of those terms. v. Goose Creek Consol. Compare, e.g., App. of Ed., 395 U. S., at 232. It was then more faithful to Brown and more respectful of our precedent than it is today. In the pages following the ones the dissent cites, the author of that article remarks that the main reason white and minority students perform better academically in majority white schools is likely that these schools provide greater opportunities to learn. . Here Roberts provides the following string citation: quoting Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244, 270, 123 S. Ct. 2411, 156 L. Ed. Justice Breyers good intentions, which I do not doubt, have the shelf life of Justice Breyers tenure. The plurality should have remembered that historically only African-American students had been told where they could go to school. No. The histories also make clear the futility of looking simply to whether earlier school segregation was de jure or de facto in order to draw firm lines separating the constitutionally permissible from the constitutionally forbidden use of race-conscious criteria. 1, p.14 (We advocate only a concept of constitutional law that permits determinations of state and local policy to be made on state and local levels. See Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw, 528 U.S. 167, 189 (2000). See Brief for United States as Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners at 27. While the Court does not suggest that greater use of race would be preferable, the minimal impact of the districts racial classifications on school enrollment casts doubt on the necessity of using such classifications. That is, it is not in all circumstances strict in theory, but fatal in fact. Id., at 237 (quoting Fullilove v. Klutznick, 448 U. S., at 519 (Marshall, J., concurring in judgment)). Yesterday, school boards had available to them a full range of means to combat segregated schools. Richmond v. J. 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. siso/reports/anrep/altern/938.pdf. of Cal. See Freeman v. Pitts, 503 U. S. 467, 494 (1992). Even after Brown, some schools with predominantly black enrollments have achieved outstanding educational results. This case was brought by a non-profit organization, Parents Involved in Community Schools (PICS), representing parents of students in the Seattle School District (District) who objected to the school districts use of race as a tiebreaker for admission to schools as violating the Equal Protection Clause. Cf. at 116669. [Footnote 30] See, e.g., Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. Instead, it selectively relies on inapplicable precedent and even dicta while dismissing contrary holdings, alters and misapplies our well-established legal framework for assessing equal protection challenges to express racial classifications, and greatly exaggerates the consequences of todays decision. One commentator, reviewing dozens of studies of the educational benefits of desegregated schooling, found that the studies have provided remarkably consistent results, showing that: (1) black students educational achievement is improved in integrated schools as compared to racially isolated schools, (2) black students educational achievement is improved in integrated classes, and (3) the earlier that black students are removed from racial isolation, the better their educational outcomes. In such cases, race-based remedial measures are sometimes required. ); brackets and internal quotation marks omitted). 1725. Question: 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. 1, No. Seattle argues that Parents Involved lacks standing because none of its current members can claim an imminent injury. App. But the district vigorously defends the constitutionality of its race-based program, and nowhere suggests that if this litigation is resolved in its favor it will not resume using race to assign students. In 20002001, with the racial tiebreaker, it was 17.9 percent Asian-American, 13.3 percent African-American, 7 percent Latino, 58.4 percent Caucasian, and 3.4 percent Native-American. 05908, at1617. Unlike de jure segregation, there is no ultimate remedy for racial imbalance. The School District, however, argues that the plan was narrowly tailored to achieve the compelling interests of promoting diversity, eliminating harms of racial isolation, and providing equal access to popular schools. Not even the dissenters thought the race-conscious remedial program posed a constitutional problem. Who exactly is white and who is nonwhite? McFarland I, supra, at 837. Jefferson County also argues that it would be incongruous to hold that what was constitutionally required of it one dayrace-based assignments pursuant to the desegregation decreecan be constitutionally prohibited the next. The law was upheld under rational-basis review, with the state court explicitly rejecting the suggestionwhich is now plainly the lawthat racial group classifications bear a far heavier burden of justification. 352 Mass., at 700, 227 N.E. 2d, at 734 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). Id. in Briggs v. Elliott, O.T. 1953, No. http://reportcard. The transfer might have had an adverse effect on the effort to approach district-wide racial proportionality at Young, but it had nothing to do with preventing either the black or other group from becoming small or isolated at Young. The Constitution does not permit race-based government decisionmaking simply because a school district claims a remedial purpose and proceeds in good faith with arguably pure motives. Ante, at 67. Transfer plans, for example, allowed students to shift from a school in which they were in the racial majority to a school in which they would be in a racial minority. Both districts rethought their methods over time and explored a wide range of other means, including non-race-conscious policies. They asked the court to dissolve the desegregation order and to hold the use of magnet school racial guidelines unconstitutional. The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact the dissents newly minted understanding of liberty. See, e.g., Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. For much of this Nations history, the races remained divided. 1, p. 7 (We have one fundamental contention which we will seek to develop in the course of this argument, and that contention is that no State has any authority under the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to use race as a factor in affording educational opportunities among its citizens); Tr. Therefore, as a general rule, all race-based government decisionmakingregardless of contextis unconstitutional. Instead of accommodating different good-faith visions of our country and our Constitution, todays holding upsets settled expectations, creates legal uncertainty, and threatens to produce considerable further litigation, aggravating race-related conflict. Because students often attend schools closest to their homes, the result is racially segregated schools. (2000 ed., Supp. The segregationists also relied upon the likely practical consequences of ending the state-imposed system of racial separation. Overall these efforts brought about considerable racial integration. Parents IV at 1169. According to the schools most recent annual report, [a]cademic excellence is its primary goal. See African American Academy 2006 Annual Report, p.2, online at http://www.seattleschools.org/area/ 1, 458 U. S. 457, 472, n.15 (1982), post, at 5657, but there this Court expressly noted that it was not passing on the propriety of race-conscious student assignments in the absence of a finding of de jure segregation. See, e.g., Swann, 402 U. S., at 2425; North Carolina Bd. VI (1978) (prescribing percentage enrollment requirements for minority students); Siqueland 55 (discussing HEW definition of minority). To use race in this way is not to set a forbidden quota. See id., at 335 (Properly understood, a quota is a program in which a certain fixed number or proportion of opportunities are reserved exclusively for certain minority groups (quoting Croson, 488 U. S., at 496)). . Justice Breyer, with whom Justice Stevens, Justice Souter, and Justice Ginsburg join, dissenting. Extending Grutter to this context would require us to cut that holding loose from its theoretical moorings. 294 F.3d 1085 (9th Cir. In fact, the defining feature of both plans is greater emphasis upon student choice. 2d 753, 756, and nn. The district retained a racial tiebreaker for oversubscribed schools, which takes effect only if the schools minority or majority enrollment falls outside of a 30% range centered on the minority/majority population ratio within the district. 2d 1224, 1240 (WD Wash. 2001) (Parents Involved I). Classifying and assigning schoolchildren according to a binary conception of race is an extreme approach in light of our precedents and our Nations history of using race in public schools, and requires more than such an amorphous end to justify it. in No. Second, in Croson, the Court appeared willing to authorize a government unit to remedy past discrimination for which it was responsible. 458 U. S., at 535, n.11. See Brief for Petitioner at 2526. After ninth grade, students can decide voluntarily to transfer to a preferred district high school (without any consideration of race-conscious criteria). are abandoning the policy of segregation whenever local conditions and local attitudes make it feasible), Brief for Appellees on Reargument in Davis v. County School Board, O.T. 1953, No. See Brief for Respondent at 13. Id., at 21. Roberts (Parts I, II, IIIA, and IIIC), joined by Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, Roberts (Parts IIIB and IV), joined by Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Breyer, joined by Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg. They do not seek to award a scarce commodity on the basis of merit, for they are not magnet schools; rather, by design and in practice, they offer substantially equivalent academic programs and electives. in No. Pitts, 503 U. S. 467 , that interest is not involved here because the Seattle schools were never segregated by law nor subject to court-ordered desegregation, and the desegregation decree to which the Jefferson County schools were previously subject has been dissolved. . Rather, we employ the familiar and well-established analytic approach of strict scrutiny to evaluate the plans at issue today, an approach that in no way warrants the dissents cataclysmic concerns. Justice Breyers reliance on McDaniel v. Barresi, 402 U. S. 39 (1971), post, at 2324, 2930, highlights how far removed the discussion in the dissent is from the question actually presented in these cases. This Court recognized as much in its opinion, which stated that the school board had an affirmative duty to disestablish the dual school system. McDaniel, supra, at 41. 1617. Voluntary cessation does not moot a case or controversy unless subsequent events ma[ke] it absolutely clear that the allegedly wrongful behavior could not reasonably be expected to recur, Friends of Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc., 528 U. S. 167, 189 (2000) (quoting United States v. Concentrated Phosphate Export Assn., Inc., 393 U. S. 199, 203 (1968) (internal quotation marks omitted)), a heavy burden that Seattle has clearly not met. See also Bakke, supra, at 312, 313 (opinion of Powell, J.). (explaining why dicta is not binding). In 1996, the school board adopted the present plan, which began in 1999. 5 Memorandum Opinion and Order, Haycraft v. Board of Ed. [12] In order to survive strict scrutiny analysis, "a narrowly tailored plan" must be presented in order to achieve a "compelling government interest. PARENTS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS v. SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 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. At issue were efforts for voluntary school desegregation and integration in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky. The State must seek alternatives to the classification and differential treatment of individuals by race, at least absent some extraordinary showing not present here. Similarly, between 1968 and 1980, the number of black children attending schools that were more than 90% minority fell from 64% to 33% in the Nation (from 78% to 23% in the South), but that too reversed direction, rising by the year 2000 from 33% to 37% in the Nation (from 23% to 31% in the South). As the Court notes, we recognized the compelling nature of the interest in remedying past intentional discrimination in Freeman v. Pitts, 503 U. S. 467, 494 (1992), and of the interest in diversity in higher education in Grutter. At a minimum, the pluralitys views would threaten a surge of race-based litigation. See, e.g., Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd. v. Barnette, 319 U. S. 624, 637 (1943) (The Fourteenth Amendment protects the citizen against the State itself and all of its creaturesBoards of Education not excepted). See Reply Brief at 3. In Board of Ed. Schools argue that a diverse environment teaches students tolerance and respect, and the exposure to diverse viewpoints enhances education and dispels stereotypes. 4 Hampton v. Jefferson Cty. 69. See Barresi v. Browne, 226 Ga. 456, 456459, 175 S.E. 2d 649, 650651 (1970). The sample includes districts in urban areas of all sizes, suburbs (e.g., Arlington County, Virginia) and rural areas (e.g., Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and Raleigh County, West Virginia). Compare Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537, 559 (1896) (Harlan, J., dissenting) (Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. We relied on the fact that this Court had not once but seven times, I think it is, pronounced in favor of the separate but equal doctrine. 1 (2007), the Supreme Court ruled this plan unconstitutional under the 14th amendment. However, some students still must take public transportation. When a court subjects governmental action to strict scrutiny, it cannot construe ambiguities in favor of the government. Furthermore, it would leave our equal-protection jurisprudence at the mercy of elected government officials evaluating the evanescent views of a handful of social scientists. Similarly, the segregationists made repeated appeals to societal practice and expectation. By recognizing racial diversity as a compelling state interest, the Supreme Court will give public school districts nationwide the ability to make decisions about whether or not to admit a student based on the isolated factor of his or her race. This is made for the. See Parents Involved VII, 426 F.3d, at 1166; McFarland II, 416 F.3d, at 514; Comfort v. Lynn School Comm., 418 F.3d 1, 13 (CA1 2005). See generally N. Thompson & C. Marr, Building for Learning: Seattle Public Schools Histories, 18622000 (2002). The last half-century has witnessed great strides toward racial equality, but we have not yet realized the promise of Brown. 05915, at 81. Justice Breyers dissent takes a different approach to these cases, one that fails to ground the result it would reach in law. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law). The 2007 Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 2005) (" Parents IV"). Likewise, a district may consider it a compelling interest to achieve a diverse student population. Student Choice, 1988 to 1998. JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION etal. in No. . Arkansas, for example, provides by statute that [n]o student may transfer to a nonresident district where the percentage of enrollment for the students race exceeds that percentage in the students resident district. Ark. v. Bakke, 438 U. S. 265 (1978).) The panel determined that while achieving racial diversity and avoiding racial isolation are compelling government interests, id., at 964, Seattles use of the racial tiebreaker was not narrowly tailored to achieve these interests, id., at 980. See Research, Evaluation and Assessment, Student Information Serv- To Harris? When determining where to place a child or where to transfer a child both school districts use race as the qualifying factor on where to send the child. 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. 2002), but then withdrew its opinion, finding that the appeal turned on an unsettled question of state law which the state courts would best be able to answer in the first instance. Strict scrutiny applies to any government classification based on race. He made it clear that "To be forced to live under a state-mandated racial label is inconsistent with the dignity of individuals in our society". [citation needed], The 414 split makes PICS somewhat similar to the 1978 Bakke case, which held that affirmative action was unconstitutional in the case directly before the Court. As to the dissent, the general conclusions upon which it relies have no principled limit and would result in the broad acceptance of governmental racial classifications in areas far afield from schooling. 05908, p.84a; Brief for Respondents in No. tui salary cabin crew. Moreover, Parents Involved also asserted an interest in not being forced to compete for seats at certain high schools in a system that uses race as a deciding factor in many of its admissions decisions. Ibid. Contrary to what the dissent would have predicted, see post, at 3839, the children in Seattles African American Academy have shown gains when placed in a highly segregated environment. The histories I have set forth describe the extensive and ongoing efforts of two school districts to bring about greater racial integration of their public schools. Jefferson County Public Schools operates the public school system in metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky. And in each city, the school boards plans have evolved over time in ways that progressively diminish the plans use of explicit race-conscious criteria. 1, pp. Thus, the school districts must demonstrate that their use of such classifications is narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling government interest. While diversity may lend to a robust education, parents and students have their own opinions on what factors promote the best education possible. in No. Justice Breyer would not only put such extraordinary weight on admitted dicta, but relies on the statement for something it does not remotely say. The state court returned the case to the Ninth Circuit for further proceedings. Roberts concludes that racial balancing cannot be a compelling state interest. . It wrote that there was overwhelming evidence of the Boards good faith compliance with the desegregation Decree and its underlying purposes. It added that the Louisville School Board had treated the ideal of an integrated system as much more than a legal obligationthey consider it a positive, desirable policy and an essential element of any well-rounded public school education.. Classifying and assigning schoolchildren according to a binary conception of race is an extreme approach in light of this Courts precedents and the Nations history of using race in public schools, and requires more than such an amorphous end to justify it.
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