Court Lets Stand Ruling On Student Transfers
The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined an invitation from an array of education groups to use a Maryland case to decide whether school districts may voluntarily consider race in making student assignments.
The justices, without comment, let stand a federal appeals court ruling that rejected the Montgomery County, Md., district's race-conscious transfer policy for magnet schools.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in Richmond, Va., ordered the district to allow a white student to transfer from his neighborhood elementary school, where blacks outnumbered whites, to a mostly white magnet school. The 125,000-student district in suburban Washington had rejected the transfer of 1st grader Jacob Eisenberg in 1998, maintaining that it would contribute to racial isolation...
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