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The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about the role of race in admissions to selective Maryland middle schools after a group of parents claimed policies discriminated against Asian students in favour of Black and Latino students.
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policies → agree → students
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the parents’ plea on four academically rigorous “magnet” schools in Montgomery County, a suburb on the outskirts of Washington, DC, in the neighbouring state of Maryland.
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Court → agree → Maryland
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administration → hear → rolls
The high court said it would weigh whether the parent group has enough evidence of discrimination for the case to move forward.
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case → say → discrimination
Lower courts previously dismissed the case because Asian-American students were not underrepresented at the specialised-curriculum schools compared with the pool of students that applied.
If the Supreme Court rules for the parent group, the Association for Education Fairness, it could revive the lawsuit.
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it → dismiss → lawsuit
The court is expected to hear arguments in the coming months and rule by June.
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court → expect → June
The Montgomery County school district’s selection process was introduced in the 2021-2022 school year during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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process → introduce → pandemic
It screens all students for academic potential, and then implements a lottery to randomly assign students from that pool to receive enriched instruction at either a magnet school or a local school.
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It → screen → school
The suit alleged that the screening process makes it harder for Asian-American students, who the challengers said are clustered in “high-performing, low-poverty elementary schools”, to enter the lottery pool.
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challengers → allege → pool
Part of the process ranks a student’s performance by comparing the student’s test scores against those of other students whose family incomes are at a similar level.
“Under the applicant pool benchmark, the government can set specific racial targets, hit them, and avoid even an inquiry into discriminatory intent,” so long as it has not explicitly called out race in its process, they wrote in their appeal to the Supreme Court.
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they → rank → Court
Previously thrown out
The case was thrown out in 2022 by US District Judge Paula Xinis.
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case → throw → Xinis
She noted that the percentage of admitted Asian-American students exceeded the percentage of Asian Americans among all applicants to the magnet schools.
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percentage → note → schools
Xinis also found no evidence that the lottery policy was implemented with discriminatory intent.
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policy → find → intent
The school system has consistently argued the new admissions policy, called the “Pandemic Plan” due to the timing of its release, is race-neutral.
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policy → argue → release
“The Pandemic Plan is a colorblind lottery,” lawyers wrote in a brief asking the Supreme Court not to take up the case.
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lawyers → write → case
Supreme Court justices will now consider whether a group claiming to be targeted by a race-neutral policy must show it was disproportionately harmed to prove intentional discrimination.
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it → consider → discrimination
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