Nearly a decade ago, Maryland’s largest public school district decided it had a problem. It didn’t involve student safety or plummeting test scores. It was that too many Asian-American children were being accepted into its magnet program for exceptional middle-schoolers.
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted a case that will decide whether Montgomery County Public Schools’ plan to rebalance the racial makeup of the program violated the Constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law.
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