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Congressman Davis Expresses Disappointment with High Court Ruling on School Desegregation Efforts

Statement

Date: June 28, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Judicial Branch


CONGRESSMAN DAVIS EXPRESSES DISAPPOINTMENT WITH HIGH COURT RULING ON SCHOOL DESEGREGATION EFFORTS

"America's schools are more segregated today than they were in the early '70s. Entrenched residential segregation and income inequality keep our children separate and only creative remedies by local school districts can overcome the divide. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court has said that in most instances voluntary efforts to draw more diverse districts are unconstitutional. The Court is wrong as a matter of law and has placed itself on the wrong side of history as well.

"There is a cruel irony here: During the era when Thurgood Marshall argued Brown v. Board of Education, legal, even armed, coercion was necessary to make schools integrate. In our America, at least some school districts are struggling valiantly to draw their communities together, and now it is the Court that is hostile to their values."


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