In June 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court held (in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education) that school districts cannot use race as the sole factor in assigning students to public schools. On Saturday, March 29, Rutgers Race and the Law Review, a student-run publication at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, will devote its annual symposium to the broad implications of the decision and its impact on New Jersey schools.
| What: | “Equal Protection or Just ‘Separate but Equal’?: The future of diversity following Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District” |
| Who: | Panel 1: Parents Involved in Community Schools: The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on race-based school assignment plans Professor Angelo Ancheta, Santa Clara School of Law Professor Leslie Yalof Garfield, Pace Law School Damon Hewitt (invited), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Panel 2: People Involved: Implications of the Court’s Decision Paul Beard, Pacific Legal Foundation Anurima Bhargava (invited), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Derrell Bradford, Excellent Education for Everyone Professor Cedric Powell, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Panel 3: How are New Jersey Schools Affected? Patricia Bombelyn, Excellent Education for Everyone Assemblywoman Mila Jasey (invited), Legislative District 27 Martin Perez, Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey Professor Paul Tractenberg, Rutgers Institute for Education Law and Policy Junius Williams (invited), Abbott Leadership Institute |
| When: | 9 am – 3 pm, Saturday, March 29, 2008 |
| Where: | McCarter & English Lecture Hall (lower level), Rutgers School of Law–Newark |