The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston. (Image via Courthouse News)
(CN) Seeing nothing wrong in the mere awareness of how new admission criteria could alter the racial makeup of a student body, a federal judge on Thursday upheld changes for the 2021-22 school year at Boston’s elite public high schools.
“Viewing everything through the prism of race is both myopic and endlessly divisive,” U.S. District Judge William Young wrote in a 48-page ruling released late Thursday evening. “Geographic and socioeconomic diversity are appropriate educational goals in their own right, regardless of race,” the Reagan appointee added.
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