At the end of June 2007 the Supreme Court made a split 5-4 ruling that limits the ability of schools to use race as a factor in determining student participation in academic programs like magnet schools. Around that same time, the Alliance for Excellence in Education released a study out of Princeton University that reports the cost of high school drop-outs to the country over the next decade will be about $3 trillion.
Houston Schools will have to make some decisions in years to come based on both of these results. The Supreme Court decision has been brewing for decades. While Houston Schools do not use race as admission to magnets, the specialized schools were started for the purpose of desegregation. And the current battle over the issue of achieving racially balanced schools by using race as a factor is a tense one. Houston Schools wont have to make changes to its magnets, as other schools in the country will. But the Houston Schools will still need to focus on ways to address the huge racial achievement gap.
The Princeton study, conducted by Cecelia Rouse, a professor of economics and public affairs, released some disturbing statistics for both Houston...
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