Diversity on the Docket
Louisville, KY.: Teacher Carlotta Ingram welcomes kindergarten students last month to John F. Kennedy Montessori Elementary School, which, like other schools in the Jefferson County district follows a policy that considers race in assigning students. The U.S. Supreme Court will review the district's policy during the term that begins this week.
—Pat McDonogh for Education Week
In its new term, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider two potentially landmark cases on whether public schools may take race into account in assigning students to schools.
School leaders attest to educational and social benefits from such diversity. They argue that local housing patterns historically tend to separate families of different races and may lead to schools that are racially homogeneous if the districts do not counter them with assignment...
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