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The Edutopia Poll
by Sara Bernard
The affirmative-action debate is back: Two controversial school-integration cases are awaiting a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. When white families in Seattle and Louisville sued their respective school districts for denying their children admission to neighborhood schools due to race-based integration policies, they argued that using race as a factor in school admissions is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection clause. Their opponents, however, maintain that many public schools are still suffering from de facto segregation, and that integration efforts are necessary to offer equal opportunities to minority students and uphold diversity in schools. Tell us what you think.
