# STEVEN D ANDERSON: Time for Supreme Court to fix ‘race neutral’ discrimination

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/steven-d-anderson-time-for-supreme-court-to-fix-race-neutral-discrimination/
- Published: 2026-11-06T09:00:23+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T10:38:07+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/steven-d-anderson-time-supreme-court-fix-race-neutral-discrimination
- Topics: Americas, Asia, Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- The Supreme Court will review a challenge to Montgomery County school admissions.
- The policy sets different test-score thresholds across school clusters.
- Asian-American enrolment at one school fell from 58.2% to 30.3%.

## Summary

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge by parents to Montgomery County, Maryland’s admissions process for four selective magnet middle schools. The case asks whether a policy that uses race-neutral criteria can still unlawfully discriminate if it is designed to change the racial make-up of schools, and whether students’ individual rights depend on how their racial group is represented.

The opinion article says the county introduced locally adjusted test-score thresholds and a lottery after consultants found Black and Hispanic pupils underrepresented in the magnet schools. Pupils in some school clusters, including those with high Asian-American enrolment, reportedly need to score in the 93rd district-wide percentile to qualify, compared with the 60th percentile elsewhere. The article says Asian-American participation at one school fell from 58.2% to 30.3% and argues the Supreme Court could overturn a Fourth Circuit precedent that limits when such policies can be challenged.

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