“We are pleased with the Court's decision, which reaffirms Brown v. Board of Education’s ruling that states must ‘achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis.’ The decision also reaffirms our longstanding position that outright racial balancing is unconstitutional and that state-mandated racial classifications have a profound stigmatizing effect. The Administration recognizes that school districts have an unquestioned interest in reducing minority isolation through race-neutral means that will improve educational opportunities for all children.”
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