Sentences with phrase «racial quota system»
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San Francisco's groundbreaking economic - desegregation plan satisfies the short - term goals of the litigants — creating a student - assignment system that avoids racial quotas, passes constitutional muster, yet also maintains a degree of racial diversity in the schools, given the connection between racial and economic status.
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A Boston lawyer has challenged the city school system's use of racial quotas in determining which students get admitted to its most prestigious schools.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the educational benefits that flow from having a diverse student body can justify using race as one factor among many in a «holistic» evaluation, while rejecting blunt racial quotas or race - based point systems.
Other system - wide investigations under Title VI prodded school districts to adopt racial quotas in school discipline when minority parents argued that an individual teacher or principal had improperly disciplined their child.
Relying on cherry - picked statutory history, Brennan found that Title VII's plain text did not prohibit collectively bargained, voluntary affirmative action programs that attempt to remedy disparate impact — statistical imbalances in the racial composition of employment groups — even if such plans used quota systems.