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Constitutional Law Keyed to Chemerinsky
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1
Citation:
555 U.S. 701 (2007)Facts
The school districts in Seattle voluntarily adopted student assignment plans that rely upon race to determine which public schools certain children may attend, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a whole. The Seattle school district classified children as white or non-white. Seattle has never operated legally segregated schools and most white students live in the northern part of Seattle while most students of other racial backgrounds live in the southern part. This plan had inevitably allocated both white and non-white students to school districts they and their parents did not want. Parents of students denied assignment to particular schools under these plans solely because of their race and brought suit, arguing that allocating children to different public schools on the basis of race violated the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection.
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