My Legal Right

Although Michigan voters barred their state from discriminating against or granting preferences to individuals or groups based on race in government employment, contracting, and education, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools in Plymouth, Michigan, is doing exactly that. (Source)
“During the past school year, minority staff comprised less than 3 percent of the faculty, while nearly a quarter of [...]

This is one of the more bizarre “diversity” stories I’ve read.
To help ensure “minority representation,” Nettleton Middle School in Nettleton, Mississippi, designated which race could run for certain class officer positions. Only whites could run for class president in all three grades—sixth, seventh, and eighth. In sixth grade, blacks could run only for the [...]

In a recent column, George Will hints at a link between the academic achievement gap and out-of-wedlock birth rate among blacks. An excerpt (emphasis added):
“Because changes in laws and mores have lowered barriers, the black middle class has been able to leave inner cities, which have become, [Nathan] Glazer says, ‘concentrations of the poor, the [...]

Earlier this year, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed suit against the Philadelphia School District, alleging “deliberate and discriminatory indifference” after groups of mostly blacks students at South Philadelphia High School (designated “persistently dangerous”) beat up students of Asian descent.
Although the district suspended about 10 students, the AALDEF claimed the school [...]

I’m surprised there aren’t more articles on the web like this one. The New American Foundation’s Michael Lind, who used to be conservative but converted to liberalism, argues that racial preferences are wrong. The most important part of his article is in bold:
The diversity theory is now invoked by university administrations to justify informal racial [...]

The American Civil Rights Foundation (ACRF) has dropped a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) after it dropped a race-based teacher assignment and transfer policy as part of a settlement. (Source)
Ward Connerly, spokesman for ACRF and president of the American Civil Rights Institute, said the race-based practice “grossly shortchanges the taxpayers, not [...]

Judah Bellin, a junior at Cornell University, addresses the stigma and academic consequences of racial preferences in the pursuit for skin deep-only diversity.
“The most potent critique of affirmative action is that it brings students to universities they’re unprepared for. As UCLA law professor Richard Sander showed in a comprehensive study of American law schools, the [...]

Ann Killenbeck, a professor at the University of Arkansas, offers a fresh perspective on Grutter v. Bollinger, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the University of Michigan law school’s use of race in admissions was narrowly tailored to further a compelling interest in “obtaining the educational benefits that flow from” a racially diverse student [...]

From “Big Gaps In Two Big Gap Studies” at Minding the Campus:
“Last week both the Chronicle of Higher Education (‘Reports Highlight Disparities in Graduation Rates Among White and Minority Students’) and Inside Higher Ed (‘Gaps Are Not Inevitable’) reported on two large studies by The Education Trust of the graduation rate gap between white and [...]