Equal Protection for K-12 Students to Promote Racial Balance

Equal Protection and Public Education
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Equal Protection and Public Education
Classifications to assign students to specific schools for racial balance
Factual background summary
Racial diversity for K-12 students is instrumental in ensuring classifications that assign learners to specific schools to achieve racial balance. It works by randomly distributing students across the different schools. The aim is to ensure that learning institutions have learners that represent where they belong. The move ensures that the education system encourages racial diversity and inclusiveness. For the American educational system to promote racial balance, schools should be willing to take measures aimed at offering quality education to diverse groups of learners.
Legal issues
More than ten decades ago, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education indicated that education remains a critical function of state and local governments since it is the foundation of good citizenship. The court recognized racially diverse schools as instrumental in offering an education that promotes cross-racial understanding, hence facilitating the breakdown of the walls of racial divisions (Goldstein, 2004). Subsequently, the Supreme Court has relied on the Brown v. Board of Education to make decisions to enhance racial diversity in schools. In 1971, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education court held unanimously busing measures that sought to speed the process of racial integration in learning institutions. The court recognized that school officials had powers to ensure integrated student bodies. In 1978, the Supreme Court in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke struck down the admission policy of the university but at the same time held some consideration of race as a factor in the process.
However, on June 28, 2007, the Supreme Court in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 ruled that schools cannot use race when assigning students. The court held that the Constitution prohibits assi...