Seattle Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. The first is the compelling interest of remedying the effects of past intentional discrimination. As to allocating resources for special programs, Seattle and Louisville have both experimented with this; indeed, these programs are often referred to as magnet schools, but the limited desegregation effect of these efforts extends at most to those few schools to which additional resources are granted. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1 Parents of school children sued the Seattle School Districts after their children were assigned to particular schools based on racial classifications to achieve integration in the school system. tutional Provisions in the States Where Segregation in Education is Institutionalized). The techniques that different districts have employed range from voluntary transfer programs to mandatory reassignment. Id., at 21. He contended that whatever trends toward classroom racial imbalance have obtained, they were not the result of state-sanctioned segregation as in the pre-Brown era. Pp. Reply Brief for Petitioner in No. The suit alleged that they were denied entrance because they were black. 1, 50 (2002) (describing President Carters support for affirmation action). It nonetheless employs the racial tiebreaker in an attempt to address the effects of racially identifiable housing patterns on school assignments. ment one would expect to find if black achievement were contin- 05908, p.84a; Brief for Respondents in No. Each respondent has failed to provide the necessary support for the proposition that there is no other way than individual racial classifications to avoid racial isolation in their school districts. Even after Brown, some schools with predominantly black enrollments have achieved outstanding educational results. 4143 (Mar. Indeed, in McDaniel, a case decided the same day as Swann, a group of parents challenged a race-conscious student assignment plan that the Clarke County School Board had voluntarily adopted as a remedy without a court order (though under federal agency pressurepressure Seattle also encountered). For the plurality now to insist as it does, ante, at 2728, that these school districts ought to have said so officially is either to ask for the superfluous (if they need only make explicit what is implicit) or to demand the impossible (if they must somehow provide more proof that there is no hypothetical other plan that could work as well as theirs). And it is for them to decide, to quote the pluralitys slogan, whether the best way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. Ante, at 4041. See post, at 5, 89, 18, 23. See Williamson v. Lee Optical of Okla., Inc., 348 U. S. 483, 488 (1955) (It is enough that there is an evil at hand for correction, and that it might be thought that the particular legislative measure was a rational way to correct it). 1991). And it is the pluralitys opinion, not this dissent that fails to ground the result it would reach in law. Ante, at 28. Wygant, 476 U. S., at 283. 1986) (upholding rezoning plan under rational-basis review). And, in any event, the histories of Seattle and Louisville make clear that this distinctionbetween court-ordered and voluntary desegregationseeks a line that sensibly cannot be drawn. Indeed, in its more recent opinions, the Court recognized that the fundamental purpose of strict scrutiny review is to take relevant differences between fundamentally different situations . On the matter of stare decisis, I submit that the duration of the challenged practice, while it is persuasive, is not controlling.

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