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4 Hampton v. Jefferson Cty. This conclusion is divorced from any evaluation of the actual impact of the plans at issue in these casesother than to note that the plans often have no effect. Post, at 46. The dissent finds that the school districts have identified a compelling interest in increasing diversity, including for the purpose of avoiding racial isolation. 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. Source: Modified from E. Frankenberg, C. Lee, & G. Orfield, A Multiracial Society with Segregated Schools: Are We And, in any event, the histories of Seattle and Louisville make clear that this distinctionbetween court-ordered and voluntary desegregationseeks a line that sensibly cannot be drawn. The opinions cited by the plurality to justify its reliance upon the de jure/de facto distinction only address what remedial measures a school district may be constitutionally required to undertake. So it was, as the dissent observes, see post, at 1314, that Louisville classified children by race in its school assignment and busing plan in the 1970s. These districts have followed this Courts holdings and advice in tailoring their plans. 11-345 In the Supreme Court of the United States ABIGAIL NOEL FISHER, PETITIONER . It again cites the MSAP to show that ensuring equal access is a compelling interest. 618206(f)(1), as amended 2007 Ark. 1, 458 U. S. 457, 461466 (1982). And it thereby set the Nation on a path toward pub-lic school integration. The student could then choose among those schools, indicating a first choice, and other choices the student found acceptable. 551 U.S. 701. 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. Get Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. Today, they do not. Nevertheless, the dissent tries to cast doubt on the historical fact that the Seattle schools were never segregated by law by citing allegations that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other organizations made in court filings to the effect that Seattles schools were once segregated by law. 1, 458 U. S., at 472473. . It was from this decision that the Parents Involved in Community Schools applied for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. Argued December 4, 2006Decided June 28, 2007. Seattle operates a K8 African-American Academy, which has a nonwhite enrollment of 99%. De jure? Perhaps for this reason, the dissent conflates the concepts of segregation and racial imbalance: If racial imbalance equates to segregation, then it must also be constitutionally acceptable to use racial balancing to remedy racial imbalance. For the 2005-2006 school year, seven out of ten of the high schools had racial balances that varied more than 15 percent from the racial balance of the school district as a whole. 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. See ante, at 1213. Swann addresses only a possible state objective; it says nothing of the permissible meansrace conscious or otherwisethat a school district might employ to achieve that objective. It reported that most districts92 of them, in factadopted desegregation policies that combined two or more highly race-conscious strategies, for example, rezoning or pairing. As to drawing neighborhood attendance zones on a racial basis, Louisville tried it, and it worked only when forced busing was also part of the plan. 1, supra. For the dissents purposes, the relevant hard-won gains are the present racial compositions in the individual schools in Seattle and Louisville. I shall apply the version of strict scrutiny that those cases embody. 2, p. 83 (It [South Carolina] is confident of its good faith and intention to produce equality for all of its children of whatever race or color. 3 Planning and Evaluation Dept., Seattle Public Schools, The Plan Adopted by the Seattle School Board to Desegregate Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grade Pupils in the Garfield, Lincoln, and Roosevelt High School Districts by September, 1971, pp. See also Adarand, supra, at 226 ([I]t may not always be clear that a so-called preference is in fact benign (quoting Bakke, supra, at 298 (opinion of Powell, J.))). After assignment, students at all grade levels are permitted to apply to transfer between nonmagnet schools in the district. I cannot rely upon Swanns statement that the use of race-conscious limits is permissible without showing, rather than simply asserting, that the statement represents a constitutional principle firmly rooted in federal and state law. Petitioner Crystal Meredith challenges the districts decision to deny her son Joshua McDonald a requested transfer for his kindergarten enrollment. Cf. It is my firm conviction that no Member of the Court that I joined in 1975 would have agreed with todays decision. But that legal circumstance cannot make a critical difference here for two separate reasons. The District further points to the line of Supreme Court cases requiring that schools desegregate even when such segregation was simply the effect of where the districts boundaries were drawn. Stripped of the baseless and novel interests the dissent asserts on their behalf, the school boards cannot plausibly maintain that their plans further a compelling interest. of Ed., 439 U. S. 1380, 1383 (1978). It is clear to us that focusing simply on demographic issues detracts from focusing on improving schools). That is a gamble I am unwilling to take, and it is one the Constitution does not allow. of Los Angeles, 458 U. S. 527, 535536 (1982) ([S]tate courts of California continue to have an obligation under state law to order segregated school districts to use voluntary desegregation techniques, whether or not there has been a finding of intentional segregation. The Constitution and our precedents require more. This plan labeled racially imbalanced any school at which the percentage of black students exceeded by more than 20% the minority population of the school district as a whole. The only support todays dissent can draw from Grutter must be found in its various separate opinions, not in the opinion filed for the Court. Even when it comes to race, the plans here employ only a limited notion of diversity, viewing race exclusively in white/nonwhite terms in Seattle and black/other terms in Jefferson County. Neither party disputes, however, that Joshuas transfer application was denied under the racial guidelines, and Merediths objection is not that the guidelines were misapplied but rather that race was used at all. Three of the oversubscribed schools were integration positive because the schools white enrollment the previous school year was greater than 51 percentBallard, Nathan Hale, and Roosevelt. The statement was not a technical holding in the case. of Boston v. Board of Education, 389 U. S. 572 (1968) (per curiam). They are tied to each districts specific racial demographics, rather than to any pedagogic concept of the level of diversity needed to obtain the asserted educational benefits. of Oral Arg. L.Rev. In Seattle, for example, in more than 80% of all cases, that choice alone determines which high schools Seattles ninth graders will attend. As Justice Marshall said, unless our children begin to learn together, there is little hope that our people will ever learn to live together. Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U. S. 717, 783 (1974) (dissenting opinion). 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. PARENTS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, PETITIONER. ; race, for some students, is determinative standing alone. Hundreds of state and federal statutes and regulations use racial classifications for educational or other purposes. See also Letter from Robert F. Kennedy, Cf. As Jefferson County explains, the racial guidelines have minimal impact in this process, because they mostly influence student assignment in subtle and indirect ways. Brief for Respondents in No. That point was challenged in Justice Breyer's dissent (joined by Stevens, Souter and Ginsberg). This is a decision that the Court and the Nation will come to regret. Post, at 22. For this purpose, administrators cataloged the racial makeup of each neighborhood housing block. 1, 50 (2002) (describing President Carters support for affirmation action). In keeping with his view that strict scrutiny should not apply, Justice Breyer repeatedly urges deference to local school boards on these issues. . To do this as an educational policy is within the broad discretionary powers of school authorities. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd. See generally Washington v. Seattle School Dist. 2. exemplifies the long-running disagreement over the meaning of racial discrimination under the Constitution. This fundamental principle goes back, in this context, to Brown itself. A to Kiner Affidavit in Seattle School Dist. 529, 532 (SC 1951))); Brief for Appellees in Briggs v. Elliott, O.T. 1952, No. 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). No. The Ninth Circuit held that the burden had not been met since counsel for the School District admitted it was likely that the policy would be reinstated. And statements of a legal rule set forth in a judicial opinion do not always divide neatly into holdings and dicta. (Consider the legal status of Justice Powells separate opinion in Regents of Univ. The District first gave priority to students who had a sibling at the school. The District contends that its plan used the narrowest possible means to achieve is educational goals. And as I explained above, the school districts have no remedial interest in pursuing these programs. of Ed., 476 U. S. 267, 274 (1986), the plurality noted: This Court never has held that societal discrimination alone is sufficient to justify a racial classification. Government action dividing people by race is inherently suspect because such classifications promote notions of racial inferiority and lead to a politics of racial hostility, Croson, supra, at 493, reinforce the belief, held by too many for too much of our history, that individuals should be judged by the color of their skin, Shaw v. Reno, 509 U. S. 630, 657, and endorse race-based reasoning and the conception of a Nation divided into racial blocs, thus contributing to an escalation of racial hostility and conflict, Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC, 497 U. S. 547, 603 (OConnor, J., dissenting). Louisville asserts several similar forward-looking interests, Brief for Respondents in No. Parents Involved VII, supra, at 1166. Brief for Petitioner at 3334. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. For several decades this Court has rested its public school decisions upon Swanns basic view that the Constitution grants local school districts a significant degree of leeway where the inclusive use of race-conscious criteria is at issue. In 1969 the NAACP filed a federal lawsuit against the school board, claiming that the board had unlawfully and unconstitutionally establish[ed] and maintain[ed] a system of racially segregated public schools. The complaint said that 77% of black public elementary school students in Seattle attended 9 of the citys 86 elementary schools and that 23 of the remaining schools had no black students at all. The dissent elides this distinction between de jure and de facto segregation, casually intimates that Seattles school attendance patterns reflect illegal segregation, post, at 5, 18, 23,[Footnote 15] and fails to credit the judicial determinationunder the most rigorous standardthat Jefferson County had eliminated the vestiges of prior segregation. See post, at 62. Even apart from Grutter, five Members of this Court agree that avoiding racial isolation and achiev[ing] a diverse student population remain today compelling interests. 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. [Footnote 3] If it is still necessary to select students for the school after using the racial tiebreaker, the next tiebreaker is the geographic proximity of the school to the students residence. The discrepancy identified is not some simple and straightforward error that touches only upon the peripheries of the districts use of individual racial classifications. See Friends of Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc., 528 U. S. 167, 189. Few black residents lived outside the central section of the city. I add that one cannot find a relevant distinction in the fact that these school districts did not examine the merits of applications individual[ly]. See ante, at 1315. I have no quarrel with the proposition that the Fourteenth Amendment sought to bring former slaves into American society as full members. The fact that those children may not be denied such admission based on their race because of undersubscription or oversubscription that benefits them does not eliminate the injury claimed. 14, 1. This distinction is critically important in the context of education. The same must be said for the controlling opinion in Grutter. The groups members have children in the districts elementary, middle, and high schools, App. 1117. That, too, strongly supports the lawfulness of their methods. 05908, at 38a. The dissents assertion that these plans are necessary for the school districts to maintain their hard-won gains reveals its conflation of segregation and racial imbalance. He also chastises Justice Breyer for saying that the Court silently overruled Grutter with this case and that the method that Breyer applies to this case is that of "the ends justify the means". Most worked at unskilled jobs. The plans initial busing requirements were extensive, involving the busing of 23,000 students and a transportation fleet that had to operate from early in the morning until late in the evening. For typical students, the plan meant busing for several years (several more years for typical black students than for typical white students). 05915, Meredith, Custodial Parent and Next Friend of McDonald v. Jefferson County Bd. Here Roberts provides the following string citation: quoting Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244, 270, 123 S. Ct. 2411, 156 L. Ed. the Chief Justice, joined by Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas, and Justice Alito, concluded for additional reasons in Parts IIIB and IV that the plans at issue are unconstitutional under this Courts precedents. area/siso/disprof/2005/DP05all.pdf; Brief for Respond- See Slaughter-House Cases, 16 Wall. . 2 1996 Memorandum 47, and Attachment 2; Hampton I, supra, at 768. 1, 458 U. S. 457); see generally Siqueland 2324. Racial imbalance is not segregation, and the mere incantation of terms like resegregation and remediation cannot make up the difference. It initially assigned each student to his or her neighborhood school, but it permitted each student freely to transfer between elementary schools within each cluster provided that the transferring student (a) was black if transferring from a predominantly black school to a predominantly white school, or (b) was white if transferring from a predominantly white school to a predominantly black school. Ante, at 28. Sustained resistance to Brown prompted the Court to authorize extraordinary race-conscious remedial measures (like compelled racial mixing) to turn the Constitutions dictate to desegregate into reality. Our established strict scrutiny test for racial classifications, however, insists on detailed examination, both as to ends and as to means. Adarand, supra, at 236 (emphasis added). The District contends that the first two benefits are important because public schools are responsible for developing good citizens. Justice Breyer speaks of bringing the races together (putting aside the purely black-and-white nature of the plans), as the justification for excluding individuals on the basis of their race. The fact that Seattle has ceased using the racial tiebreaker pending the outcome here is not dispositive, since the district vigorously defends its programs constitutionality, and nowhere suggests that it will not resume using race to assign students if it prevails. No. 547 U. S. __ (2006). in Davis v. County School Board, O.T. 1953, No. In light of this Courts conclusions in Grutter, the compelling nature of these interests in the context of primary and secondary public education follows here a fortiori. In Brown, this Court held that the governments segregation of schoolchildren by race violates the Constitutions promise of equal protection. Simply because the school districts may seek a worthy goal does not mean they are free to discriminate on the basis of race to achieve it, or that their racial classifications should be subject to less exacting scrutiny. This Courts opinion in McDaniel v. Barresi, 402 U. S. 39 (1971), fits comfortably within this framework. The plans at issue are not overly different from other plans that school districts have used with the express or implicit approval of courts. Cf. Yesterday, the plans under review were lawful. Both the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected Merediths challenge and held the unmodified aspects of the plan constitutional. 2d 753, 756, and nn. The dissent refers repeatedly and reverently to integration. However, outside of the context of remediation for past de jure segregation, integration is simply racial balancing. The district has identified its purposes as follows: (1) to promote the educational benefits of diverse school enrollments; (2) to reduce the potentially harmful effects of racial isolation by allowing students the opportunity to opt out of racially isolated schools; and (3) to make sure that racially segregated housing patterns did not prevent non-white students from having equitable access to the most popular over-subscribed schools. Id., at 19. Quoting Justice Powells articulation of diversity in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U. S. 265, 314315, the Grutter Court noted that it is not an interest in simple ethnic diversity, in which a specified percentage of the student body is in effect guaranteed to be members of selected ethnic groups, that can justify the use of race, 539 U. S., at 324325, but a far broader array of qualifications and characteristics of which racial or ethnic origin is but a single though important element, id., at 325. have recognized that voluntary programs of local school authorities designed to alleviate de facto segregation and racial imbalance in the schools are not constitutionally forbidden. Tometz v. Board of Ed., Waukegan School Dist. we mean the freedom of the slave race); Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U. S. 303, 306 (1879) ([The Fourteenth Amendment] is one of a series of constitutional provisions having a common purpose; namely, securing to a race recently emancipated . (Enrollment Guide). This presumably refers to the districts decision to cease, for 20012002 school year assignments, applying the racial tiebreaker to students seeking to transfer to a different school after ninth grade. Accordingly, these plans are simply one more variation on the government race-based decisionmaking we have consistently held must be subjected to strict scrutiny. I cannot endorse that conclusion. Both districts rethought their methods over time and explored a wide range of other means, including non-race-conscious policies. It then created a mixed student body by assigning to those schools students who would otherwise attend predominantly white, or predominantly black, schools elsewhere. Unlike the dissenters, I am unwilling to delegate my constitutional responsibilities to local school boards and allow them to experiment with race-based decisionmaking on the assumption that their intentions will forever remain as good as Justice Breyers. To the contrary, Jefferson County in its briefing has explained how and when it employs these classifications only in terms so broad and imprecise that they cannot withstand strict scrutiny. Are they to spend days, weeks, or months seeking independently to validate the use of ratios that this Court has repeatedly authorized in prior cases? 2, pp. See, e.g., App. Applying these precedents to K-12 education, the Circuit Court found that the tiebreaker scheme was not narrowly tailored. Pp. 4, 1984) (1984 Memorandum); Memorandum from Donald W. Ingwerson, Superintendent, to the Board of Education, Jefferson County Public School District, pp. And my view was the rallying cry for the lawyers who litigated Brown. Brief in Opposition in No. A majority of these desegregation techniques explicitly considered a students race. Fifty-three of the 125 studied districts used transfers as a component of their plans. (Fourteenth Amendment creates rights guaranteed to the individual. Of these, 2.3 million were black and Latino students, and only 72,000 were white. Without attempting in these cases to set forth all the interests a school district might assert, it suffices to note that our prior cases, in evaluating the use of racial classifications in the school context, have recognized two interests that qualify as compelling. The plans under reviewwhich are less burdensome, more egalitarian, and more effective than prior planscontinue in that tradition. to Brief for 553 Social Scientists as Amici Curiae 1314 (footnote omitted). The Jefferson County Board of Education fails to meet this threshold mandate. Despite the dissents repeated intimation of a remedial purpose, neither of the programs in question qualifies as a permissible race-based remedial measure. Nothing in the extensive history of desegregation efforts over the past 50 years gives the districts, or this Court, any reason to believe that another method is possible to accomplish these goals. In doing so, the board created a new racial guideline, namely a floating range of 10% above and 10% below the countywide average for the different grade levels. The board simultaneously redrew district boundaries so that middle school students could attend the same school for three years and high school students for four years. 32, Exh. Who exactly is white and who is nonwhite? [Footnote 11]. The Court's ruling in the "Parents Involved in Community Schools" v. "Seattle School District No. 2, 4, 5 (WD Ky. 1999) (Hampton I). [Footnote 23] And foreshadowing todays dissent, the segregationists most heavily relied upon judicial precedent. Ante, at 1718. Le Lys Rouge (The Red Lily) 95 (W. Stephens transl. No. No. 2002). [Footnote 10] There are good reasons not to apply a lesser standard to these cases. But I am quite comfortable in the company I keep. These statements nowhere suggest that this freedom is limited to school districts where court-ordered desegregation measures are also in effect. Just prior to the plans implementation, for example, 4 of Seattles 11 high schools were imbalanced, i.e., almost exclusively black or almost exclusively white. By 1979, only two were out of balance. By 1980 only Cleveland remained out of balance (as the board defined it) and that by a mere two students.

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