Columbus, OH – On Monday, The Buckeye Institute, joined by Mountain States Legal Foundation, filed an amicus brief in Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. School Committee for the City of Boston, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case and end discrimination-by-proxy in elite public schools.

“In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that admissions criteria using race as a factor is unlawful,” said David C. Tryon, director of litigation at The Buckeye Institute. “Schools and the U.S. Department of Education have tried to side-step the court’s ruling, but this case allows the high court to make it clear that racial discrimination-by-proxy is still racial discrimination.”

Under the U.S. Constitution, using racial proxies such as ZIP codes to achieve racial balance violates the equal protection clause. However, that is just what the School Committee for the City of Boston did when it changed the entrance requirements for its three elite public schools. 

Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence v. School Committee for the City of Boston is a Pacific Legal Foundation case.

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UPDATE: on December 9, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court denied cert.