By: cpsobsessed

cpsobsessed — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:31:19 +0000

Thanks, that is interesting. I can totally see what you’re saying about possible challenges if it isn’t a legal mandate. I’ve heard people I wouldn’t have expected making comments about the unfairness of the Jimmies being shut out.
Already CPS is generous with giving 35% of slots to Caucasian kids when CPS is only 10% white. It’s just hard because of the way the city is so physically segregated by race. There might be a more fair way to allocated the spaces but I’m sure there would be a million opinions as to what that would be.

By: dave4118

dave4118 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:18:06 +0000

i spoke to my wife’s uncle this weekend, he is a harvard Law grad and is knowledgeable about school integration issues and the courts. I asked what his sense of the SACD was, as far as it being terminated. He felt that there was a good chance that the SACD would be terminated, but that the city and CPS would not change much concerning the programs in place, or the mechanisms by which they ‘adjust’ enrollment demographics.He feels that the city is asking for the termination of the consent decree simply because they feel that they have substantially complied with the decree. So….termination of the consent decree would not end the CPS policies concerning race-based selections. BUT…uncle lawer felt that some very really court challenges are lay ahead, in the form of caucasian lawsuits for unfair practices and policies. I.e.-little Jimmy scored 100 and didn’t get in, but Maria scored 92 and did get in.

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