Fox News: Supreme Court rejects Boston parents' appeal claiming racial bias in an admissions policy

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Supreme Court rejects Boston parents' appeal claiming racial bias in an admissions policy

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Boston parents who claimed a temporary admissions policy discriminated against White and Asian students.......                    ...                        ...The Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Monday to take up a case of Boston parents claiming You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login had discriminated against White and Asian students.......The Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login regarding three high schools: Boston Latin Schools, Boston Latin Academy and the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science. ......In 2020, these schools temporarily halted their entrance exam requirements due to the pandemic limiting their ability to have in-person examinations. They instead selected students based on their grade point averages and ZIP code.......Parents argued that this change violated You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login regarding affirmative action after the number of White and Asian students decreased once this new policy was implemented. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The Supreme Court ultimately rejected the case, with Justice Neil Gorsuch explaining the court has no need to hear it since the policy was revised......."The parents and students do not challenge Boston's new policy, nor do they suggest that the city is simply biding its time, intent on reviving the old policy.  Strictly speaking, those developments may not moot this case. But, to my mind, they greatly diminish the need for our review," Gorsuch wrote.......The policy was only in place for one year and was replaced for the 2022-2023 school year with a plan that relies on standardized testing.......Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the decision, describing the policy as "a glaring constitutional error that threatens to perpetuate race-based affirmative action."......"I would reject root and branch this dangerously distorted view of disparate impact. The Court, however, fails to do so today, so I must respectfully dissent," Alito wrote.......The Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in February 2021 on behalf of 14 anonymous students. Lower courts sided with the school system, claiming the admissions criteria were racially neutral.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The Boston School Committee further argued to the court that the case is no longer relevant and was implemented and ended prior to the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision......."The same students were eligible to apply again in 2022 under a new process that they do not challenge, and (if they applied) were either unsuccessful or already admitted," the committee wrote.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login reached out to the Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence for a comment.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in a 6-3 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that said using race as a factor in college admissions violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login...

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