Summary
- The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education, challenging Maryland's admissions process for selective public magnet schools.
- The case, brought by mostly Asian-American parents, claims the policy, while ostensibly race-neutral, was designed to reduce Asian-American student enrollment.
- A lower court dismissed the lawsuit, stating the admissions process is neutral and applied evenhandedly, but the parent group argues it violates constitutional rights.
- The Supreme Court will decide if a plaintiff must show a disproportionate impact on a racial group to challenge a facially neutral admissions policy as discriminatory.
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