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The struggle to integrate American public schoolshas not been as successful as many had hoped in thefifty plus years since Brown v. Board of Education.Judicial trends away from desegregation remediescombined with pronounced residential sorting havecontributed to a public school system that continuesto be ethnically and economically segregated. Asthe role of choice in American public schools hasincreased, so has the fear that segregation couldbecome more pronounced. This has prompted somepublic school policy makers to consider race-basedadmission criteria in order to further studentdiversity. As a result, litigation surroundingaffirmative action policies has crept from the realmof higher education into the public school sector.This book thoroughly examines the constitutionalquestions surrounding affirmative action admissionsin education and offers practical policy suggestionsto school administrators who are interested inlegally fostering diversity within public choiceschools.
About the author
Watt Lesley Black, Jr., is a school principal and adjunct
professor of school law with the University of North Texas.
Through the American College of Education, he has designed
school law courses for Barat College in Illinois and Lamar
University in Texas. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of
North Texas in 2002.
