Supremes Limit Use of Race in School Admissions

The Supremes are on a roll with another good decision:

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected school diversity plans that take account of students' race in two major public school districts but left the door open for using race in limited circumstances.

The decision in cases affecting schools in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle could imperil similar plans in hundreds of districts nationwide, and it further restricts how public school systems may attain racial diversity.

The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court's judgment. The court's four liberal justices dissented.

Yet Justice Anthony Kennedy would not go as far as the other four conservative justices, saying in a concurring opinion that race may be a component of school district plans designed to achieve diversity.

Kennedy still has enough "swing vote" in him that he just can't pull that trigger all the way and vote to eliminate race altogether as a factor in school admissions. Still, this decision will go a long way to eliminating the liberal pipe dreams of forcing diversity through all kinds of stupid formulas and programs.

If you really want diversity, allow school choice through a voucher program. Parents with kids in poor quality minority schools would have the option to move to better schools and the diversity which is so desperately desired by the libs would be achieved without all the exotic busing and other programs that have been tried over the past 40 years.