Maree Sneed doesn’t see it that way.
In a memo to the districts she represents, the Washington, D.C., attorney noted that five of the justices indicated that they view “avoiding the harms of racial isolation and providing the educational benefits of diverse student enrollments to be compelling governmental interests.” If race is used in a narrowly tailored way to achieve one of those goals, she wrote, “a number of race-conscious practices ... are likely permissible ...”
Each community must decide how important school diversity is, and how best to achieve it in this new judicial climate, she says.
“The goal should be to become unitary,” Sneed says. “Because you’re trying to fix a dual system.”
--Associated Press
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