Was the Brown vs Board of Education decision recently overturned?

Question

The other day in my black experience class, a young lady stated that the Brown vs Board of Education decision had been overturned. She said it happened within the last month. I was just wondering if anybody else heard about this and if so can you explain it more for me. Thank You

Answer 1

No.

A few months ago the Court ruled in a couple of related cases concerning forced "busing" of students in Seattle, Wa and Louisville, KY.

In both cities, students are in general assigned to their closest school. However, every neighborhood has a different racial make-up, so that resulted in each school having different percentages of blacks and whites. So both school districts started programs of reasigning students to more distant schools, based solely on their race, so as to get the same racial mixture in every school.

The Supreme court ruled this was illegal. It is legal, they ruled, for schools to use race as a factor in determining placement, but NOT for them to base decisions SOLELY on race.

Some liberal pundits said that this "overturned" Brown as it would lead to white neighborhoods having white schools, and vice-versa. However, it really upheld Brown, working on the basis , as the court said, that "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

Richard

Answer 2

"Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka" was a 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled "Seperate, but equal" was a violation of the 14th Amendment. This lead to the end of segregation.

If Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was overturned, that means schools can be racially segregated. Do you really think that will ever happen today?


The simple answer is No, it has not been overturn. That young lady didn't know what she was talking about.

Answer 3

No. But there was a case from Washington State recently...she could be referring to that.


Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 551 U.S. (2007), decided together with Meredith v. Jefferson, is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that prohibited assigning students to public schools solely for the purpose of achieving racial integration and declined to recognize racial balancing as a compelling state interest.

Answer 4

No, it has not been overturned. However, there have been a couple of recent cases where courts have ruled against racial integration schemes, so some people that don't know the details are claiming this.

Answer 5

Brown v. Bd of Ed of Topeka, KA (sorry William B) overturned the doctrine of 'separate yet equivalent'. What exchange into 'huge' approximately that's that it thoroughly reversed the legal foundation for segregation. Why are you asking Yahoo solutions? that's an undemanding reference question, basically Google it.

Answer 6

No. It stands!