Fred Harteis News Articles - Seattle’s “open choice” program to promote racial balance in its high schools encountered skepticism in the Supreme Court today in arguments of great interest to educators across the country.

 

Michael Madden, the school district’s lawyer, insisted that the Seattle plan was so “narrowly tailored” as to be acceptable, even though some students are admittedly assigned, based on race, to schools they did not choose. Mr. Madden told the justices that Seattle students who do not get the schools they want are “not being ...   more »