Sentences with phrase «racial quotas»

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.

They argue that Ivy League institutions use racial quotas to the detriment of more qualified Asian - American applicants.

A quarter - century after outlawing strict racial quotas in higher education, the U.S. Supreme Court heard powerful arguments last week on whether race can still be one factor among many that colleges use to achieve diversity in admissions.

And most school districts now recognize that using explicit racial quotas in magnet admissions when desegregation orders have been lifted is risky.

The 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of racial quotas at the University of Michigan — but approving the use of race as one of many factors in admissions decisions — has had little impact on magnet schools, mainly because most had already abandoned the use of quotas.

The number of black and Latino Hartford students attending integrated schools has likely dropped by more than 1,000 this year, as some Greater Hartford magnets struggle to attract enough white and Asian students to meet racial quotas under the state's landmark desegregation case.

While few educators were shocked by the ruling, some did find it interesting that the Supreme Court heard the case at all considering Grutter v. Bollinger, the 2003 landmark case where the Supreme Court rejected racial quotas but supported the consideration of race as part of a «holistic» admissions review.

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.

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.

One wonders: do the authors of the Platform themselves agree about whether the «dignity of all persons» is offended by abortion, whether racial quotas honor or violate the principle that «discrimination is abhorrent,» or whether the virtue of «tolerance» requires putting up with obscenity in the music of rock and rap?

Courts and political parties have recognized and often validated racial quotas.

Here, Scalia quotes from the constitutional scholar Alexander Bickel, who argued that a «racial quota derogates the human dignity and individuality of all to whom it is applied; it is invidious in principle as well as in practice.»

Critics of disparate impact have long pointed out that the doctrine actually compels discrimination, since remedying any disparities caused by neutral policies requires racial quotas and classifications.

Thus the scheme eschews outright racial quotas, but achieves some of the diversity that quotas would create.

No districts have been found to have adopted disciplinary racial quotas in response to the guidance.

A group of Chinese - Americans in San Francisco, thwarted by a federal judge in their 3 - year - old effort to abolish racial quotas in the city's public schools, have vowed to appeal.

Copyright 1988 Civil - rights advocates have frequently clashed with the assistant attorney general over his opposition to racial quotas as a means of redressing prior discrimination and his narrow interpretation of civil - rights statutes.

This is why many of us don't think it's a stretch to say that the 2014 policy imposed racial quotas on discipline and has likely had a chilling effect on discipline nationwide.

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.

Summit attorney Paul Minney said the school is prohibited by state law from establishing racial quotas but is publicizing the school to non-English speakers in their native language along with the targeted recruiting in low - income neighborhoods.

This seems like an unpopular solution based on the public support for the end of busing and without a plan in place to avoid settin racial quotas, the county could inadvertently place itself in violation of the Parents Involved Supreme Court Decision.

Several city school officials sat around a conference table in the district's downtown headquarters as Stallings and Tiffany Glanville, the board's vice chairwoman, directed them to figure out if there was a way to enroll Isiah at Noah Webster despite the strict racial quota.

It is remarkable, perhaps, that despite the reduction in state funding and the elimination of explicit racial quotas, the total number of magnet schools has not declined.

The Wall Street Journal references our report, Collateral Damage, as they look at racial quotas in Special Education:

Racial quotas are not allowed, and universities, as far as I know, are not using racial quotas.

Foremost among the roads better not taken is, of course, the embrace of the racial quota system.

Critics of the guidance believe it puts the safety of teachers and administrators at risk by making it more difficult to suspend dangerous students, and that it creates an incentive for schools to develop a «racial quota» approach to student discipline.

Thus, after the busing mandate in Nashville, real estate agents began marketing residences in a way similar to their marketing of residents at the beginning of the suburbanization era, but this time segmenting the areas affected by bussing and racial quotas and not affected by bussing.

The Supreme Court has held, Regents of California v Bakke 438 U.S. 265, that a racial quota system is unconstitutional.

Respondent, echoing the courts below, labels it a racial quota.