Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling on Race-Based School-Transfer Policies

The U.S. Supreme Court last week let stand a lower court's decision to bar a Maryland public-school system from considering race in weighing students' transfer requests. The ruling did little, however, to clarify how the justices view the use of race-conscious policies in other areas of education, such as college admissions.

That is because the Supreme Court rejected an appeal of the lower court's ruling without any explanation, as it frequently does. And the

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