June 16, 2006

Supreme Court Will Hear Affirmative-Action Cases With Potentially Broad Meaning for Higher Education

By JEFFREY SELINGO

Deciding once again to weigh in on the explosive debate over affirmative action, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to take up the question of whether race can be a factor in assigning students to public schools.

The court accepted two cases that are the first involving racial preferences at educational institutions since it handed down two landmark rulings on race-conscious college admissions in 2003, and since the appointment of two new justices by President Bush.

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