Dec 01 2006
The End of Desegregation?
GUESTS: John Brittain, Chief Counsel and Senior Deputy with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Aimee Baldillo, Director of Programs at the Asian American Justice Center
A half-century after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court is being asked to stop local schools from voluntarily adopting plans to promote racial integration. The federal government has entered the case on the side of white parents challenging the plans. The two cases in question are Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (which is in Kentucky). Students from around the country have organized protests to stake out the court during the December 4th hearings. Ted Shaw, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund said, “In a sense, what’s at stake here is a fairly narrow set of situations where voluntary integration efforts are still being made in public schools… In another sense though, the impact of this is potentially enormous because what our adversaries are trying to do is stop all attempts to address school desegregation on a voluntary basis. And that’s part of a broader attempt to stop all voluntary efforts to do anything about racial inequality.†Today public schools are less integrated than they were in 1970. The percentage of black children attending schools that are mostly minority increased from 66 percent in 1991 to 73 percent in 2003, according to the Harvard Civil Rights Project.
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