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Vokes, Chelsie – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2022
When President Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court, it seemed like a major civil rights victory. But that victory could feel like a bitter irony this fall, when the high court hears two cases that will likely obliterate affirmative action. If Jackson gets approved by the Senate, she will probably be making two…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Federal Courts, Court Litigation, Student Diversity
Feldblum, Miriam; Magaña-Salgado, Jose – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Last November, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the administration could rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), with the fate of over 650,000 DACA recipients in the balance. Under federal law, DACA recipients cannot access federal financial aid, so most rely on a mix of private scholarships, state or institutional…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Federal Courts
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Liebowitz, David D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
In the early 1990s, the Supreme Court established standards to facilitate the release of school districts from racial desegregation orders. Over the next two decades, federal courts declared almost half of all districts under court order in 1991 to be "unitary"--that is, to have met their obligations to eliminate dual systems of…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, School Districts, Desegregation Litigation, Federal Courts