Use of Race a Concern for Magnet Schools
Decision in student-assignment cases came as U.S. reviewed grant applications.
Federal education officials were in the final stages of authorizing their latest round of grants for magnet schools when the U.S. Supreme Court in late June issued a major decision on whether school districts may consider race when assigning students to school.
The high court, by a 5-4 majority, struck down race-conscious assignment policies in the Seattle and Jefferson County, Ky., school districts because certain assignment decisions were based on individual students’ racial status. In a significant concurring opinion, however, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy stressed that districts were not barred from all consideration of race.
Suddenly, every program involving race in education was under intense new scrutiny, including the U.S. Department of Education’s Magnet Schools Assistance Program , which provides about $106 million a year to help districts establish or revise schools or programs that draw students from...
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