Supreme Court declines to review Boston case and 'race neutral' efforts to diversify public schools
Source: CNN Politics
Published 9:52 AM EST, Mon December 9, 2024
CNN — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to decide whether three elite Boston public schools violated the Constitution with a zip-code based admissions policy intended to ensure racial diversity.
The appeal landed at the high court more than a year after a landmark 6-3 ruling ended affirmative action at universities and prompted school officials to experiment with “race neutral” policies – such as those based on geography – to promote diversity but fend off court challenges.
Two conservatives – Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas – dissented from the decision to not hear the case. Alito wrote that the court was refusing “to correct a glaring constitutional error that threatens to perpetuate race-based affirmative action in defiance” of its major affirmative action decision last year. By passing on the case, the justices left in place a decision from a Boston-based federal appeals court siding with the school district.
Boston school officials abandoned a test-and-grades based admissions policy in 2020 for three premier schools, among the most prestigious public high schools in the nation, which together enroll almost 6,000 students. Instead, the school adopted a zip-code based model that reserved seats for students with the highest GPA from each Boston neighborhood.
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