The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal in a case brought by Boston parents who argued that admissions policies discriminated against white and Asian students.
Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence A lawsuit was filed over the city's policies. About three high schools: Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy, and John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science.
In 2020, these schools temporarily suspended entrance exam requirements as the pandemic limited in-person testing. Instead, they selected students based on grade point average and zip code.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the school admissions case. ((Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images))
Parents argued that the change violates a 2023 court ruling on affirmative action after the number of white and Asian students declined after the new policy was implemented.
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The Supreme Court ultimately dismissed the case, with Justice Neil Gorsuch explaining that the court did not need to hear it because the policy had been revised.
“Parents and students are not objecting to Boston's new policies, nor are they suggesting that the city is simply biding its time to reinstate old policies. The development may not be an issue in this case, but in my opinion they would significantly reduce the need for our review,'' Gorsuch wrote.
This policy was only in place for one year and was replaced by a plan that relies on standardized testing in the 2022-2023 school year.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, calling the policy “a clear constitutional error that threatens the permanence of race-based affirmative action.”
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“I intend to fundamentally reject this dangerously distorted view of disparate influence. But the court has failed to do so today, so I must respectfully disagree.” Alito wrote.
Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence He originally sued the Boston School Board. February 2021, on behalf of 14 anonymous students. Lower courts sided with the school system, arguing that its admissions standards were racially neutral.
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The Boston School Committee further argued to the court that the case was no longer relevant and had been implemented and terminated before the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision.
“The same students would have been eligible to reapply in 2022 under the new no-objection process, but[if they had applied]they would have been unsuccessful or had already been admitted,” the commission said. It is written down.
Parents in Boston alleged that the city's schools discriminated against white and Asian students based on a temporary admissions policy. (Reuters)
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence for comment.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University that using race as a factor in college admissions violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. I made a judgment.
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