Legal Opinion
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 28, 2007No. 05-908PublishedCited by 447 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtChief Justice Roberts
The school districts in these cases voluntarily adopted student assignment plans that rely upon race to determine *710which public schools certain children may attend. The Seattle school district classifies children as white or nonwhite; the Jefferson County school district as black or “other.” In Seattle, this racial classification is used to allocate slots in oversubscribed high schools. In Jefferson County, it is used to make certain elementary school assignments and to rule on transfer requests. In each case, the school district relies upon an individual student’s race in assigning that…
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