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A Minnesota public school district created a plan to prioritize laying off white teachers. https://nypost.com/2022/08/17/minneapolis-schools-defend-plan-to-ax-w

• HideousKojima 4y ago
  And in doing so, they almost perfectly matched what a school district did back in 1985 and got wrecked by SCOTUS over: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/476/267.html https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/476/267.html A bold move, especially since the court looks even less favorably on affirmative action than it did 40 years ago.
  • Consultant32452 4y ago
    The problem is not just the letter of the law, it's the culture that would even create such a policy in the first place. The law can help some, assuming SCOTUS knocks this down, but it doesn't address the root cause. The people who came up with this will still be in positions of power.