{"id":10030,"date":"2026-10-20T05:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=10030"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:32:59","slug":"us-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-race-in-school-admissions-education-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=10030","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court to hear case on race in school admissions | Education News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A group of parents claims local admission policy boosts Black and Latino students while constraining Asian applicants.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court<\/a> agreed on Monday to hear the parents\u2019 plea on four academically rigorous \u201cmagnet\u201d schools in Montgomery County, a suburb on the outskirts of Washington, DC, in the neighbouring state of Maryland.<\/p>\n

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The high court said it would weigh whether the parent group has enough evidence of discrimination for the case to move forward.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

If the Supreme Court rules for the parent group, the Association for Education Fairness, it could revive the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The court is expected to hear arguments in the coming months and rule by June.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Pandemic Plan\u2019<\/h2>\n

The Montgomery County school district\u2019s selection process was introduced in the 2021-2022 school year during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The suit alleged that the screening process makes it harder for Asian-American students, who the challengers said are clustered in \u201chigh-performing, low-poverty elementary schools\u201d, to enter the lottery pool.<\/p>\n

Part of the process ranks a student\u2019s performance by comparing the student\u2019s test scores against those of other students whose family incomes are at a similar level.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the applicant pool benchmark, the government can set specific racial targets, hit them, and avoid even an inquiry into discriminatory intent,\u201d so long as it has not explicitly called out race in its process, they wrote in their appeal to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Previously thrown out<\/h2>\n

The case was thrown out in 2022 by US District Judge Paula Xinis. She noted that the percentage of admitted Asian-American students exceeded the percentage of Asian Americans among all applicants to the magnet schools.<\/p>\n

Xinis also found no evidence that the lottery policy was implemented with discriminatory intent.<\/p>\n

The school system has consistently argued the new admissions policy, called the \u201cPandemic Plan\u201d due to the timing of its release, is race-neutral.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pandemic Plan is a colorblind lottery,\u201d lawyers wrote in a brief asking the Supreme Court not to take up the case. \u201cNothing about the Pandemic Plan, its history, or its purpose is offensive to the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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