School (Re)Segregation Cases / School Affirmative Action Cases

Here I am merely going to provide links to resources related to the two cases. 

The Court's opinion in the two school district cases (characterize what the Court did as you will) is here: Opinion for Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District. 

Oral Arguments:

• Transcript for Parents v. Seattle School District
  • Audio File of Oral Argument
• Transcript for Meredith v. Jefferson County Bd. of Ed.
  
  • Audio File of Oral Argument

Findlaw provides a page with links to many of the briefs submitted in both Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and in Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education.

N.Y. Times coverage here, here, and here.

Jonathan Kozol, a leading expert on education has written the following that relate to these two cases:

• The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (Random House 2005); on Amazon here. 
• Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid; Harper's Magazine v.311, n.1864 1sep2005, available here. 

-E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu