Abstract:
Boger and Bower discuss recent rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals, Tuttle v. Arlington County School Board, Eisenberg v. Montgomery County Public Schools, and Capacchione v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, and how they may affect school assignments across the state. Basically the rulings prohibit most of the state's school systems from considering ethnicity or race when assigning children to public schools. The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to consider an appeal of the lower court decision.