The Consent Decree

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With an increasement of students attending public schools, there tends to be a shortage of space and resources. Schools begin to limit open seats for new comers. They also increase the difficulty on academic standards. The Consent Decree was created in order for equality between different ethnicities in public schools. Some administers created control target race numbers for their faculties. The article Desegregation in a Diverse and competitive Environment: Admissions at Lowell High School by Racy Ming describes how Lowell high school changed its admissions policy to have an equal number of each ethnicity in the school and the result of that change. Lowell high school was known as the best public high school in Mississippi. Lowell prepared its students for college level work. It was known as a very academic competitive school that is hard to get into. For admission the school asked to see students’ standardized test scores as well as their middle school GPA. They took both the standardized test scores and middle school GPA and they made a point system which created a student average. If the students received 69 points, then the school would accept that student right away if the student received anything lower than 69 points, then that student would have to wait until all students with 69 points were …show more content…

To follow the guidelines contained in the Consent Decree, Lowell changed its admission applications to cutoff applicants based on their race. This caused many issues for instance; many Chinese Americans felt that they were being targeted because there was such a high percentage of Chinese Americans in Lowell high school. This caused the case Ho v. SFUSD to be created. The Ho v. SFUSD case was created by Chinese American parents who felt that that the Consent Decree was harming Chinese American

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