Conservative group challenging minority scholarships in IL

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Top Affirmative Action Foe Has New Target: Scholarships for Aspiring Minority Teachers​



October 23, 2024


The legal activist behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to affirmative action in college admissions is now taking on an Illinois minority scholarship program for aspiring teachers.
Edward Blum’s group, the American Alliance for Equal Rights, has sued Illinois officials over the 32-year-old Minority Teachers of Illinois Scholarship Program, which awards as much as $7,500 per year to qualified minority applicants.
Applicants must be American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, or Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. Blum’s group asserts that such a race-based qualification violates the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection clause
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“Such blatant race-based discrimination against individuals who could otherwise contribute to a robust teacher pipeline in Illinois serves no compelling government purpose,” says the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Springfield, the state capital. “It is demeaning, patronizing, un-American, and unconstitutional.”
Another group founded by Blum, Students for Fair Admissions, was behind the legal challenges to race-based admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The Supreme Court in 2023 struck down both programs and largely invalidated the consideration of race as it had been practiced in admissions for nearly 50 years.
Although the landmark decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College did not address minority scholarships or other race-conscious education policies outside of admissions, the ruling has sparked a host of challenges to other forms of race-conscious programs in government, business, the legal profession, and nonprofit organizations.
For example, the Smithsonian Institution opened up a Latino museum studies internship program to non-Latinos after the American Alliance for Equal Rights filed a lawsuit.


Some legal experts believe the logic of the Supreme Court’s admissions decision would extend to minority scholarship programs, and some states have moved to end them or open them to all regardless of race.
Soon after the Supreme Court admissions decision, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, instructed state universities and local governments to end a variety of race-conscious policies, including minority scholarships.


Several K-12 programs under challenge after high court ruling​

Erin Wilcox, a lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is challenging many race-conscious programs nationwide and is representing Blum’s group in the lawsuit, said there are numerous education programs subject to greater legal scrutiny in light of the Harvard decision.
“These are legacy programs that have been in place for decades, and no one has challenged them and they stayed in place year after year,” she said in an interview.
The Pacific Legal Foundation has also represented parents and others challenging K-12 selective schools in Boston, New York City, and suburban Washington, D.C., that use socioeconomic criteria to promote diversity in student enrollment.

Under the program run by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, which has a current annual budget of $8 million, scholarship recipients pursue teacher training and are contractually obligated to become full-time teachers for at least one year in schools with at least 30 percent minority students.
The lawsuit cites “Member A,” a high school senior who does not qualify for the minority scholarship but intends to pursue a teaching career in Illinois.
“Except for her race, Member A is qualified, ready, willing, and able to apply to the Scholarship Program,” the suit says. The group is suing as an association and Member A is not an individual plaintiff.
A spokeswoman for the Illinois Student Assistance Commission said the agency was reviewing the lawsuit but generally does not comment on pending litigation.
 

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Minority Teachers of Illinois Scholarship Program......Minority.....ummm....so this is another lift all program:francis:....which awards as much as $7,500 per year to qualified minority applicants. Applicants must be American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, or Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.

Once again FBA do all the fighting and everyone else benefits......Also didn't the Latino/Hispanic come out in record numbers to vote for Trump.

 

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in Illinois this is effecting black people directly
Our fellow countrymen just decided our direction for at least a generation. Trump’s SCOTUS wants affirmation action gone. His congress wants it gone. He wants it gone. The only thing stopping him is nothing.

It's HYON until something drastic happens. Like when America was great for us.
 

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This is just the preview, it will be nationwide on a large scale, we are about to see the number of black americans getting into colleges and universities, into the federal workforce at historic lows not seen in generations. Sane black people better speak with their families and friends and have plans and be strategic in how they conduct their-selves , this trigger happy police are rabid dogs that just got the ''go'' word to reign terror on any black person.
 

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Every presidential election is about control of the Supreme Court, even if many Americans don’t consciously realize it. By re-electing former President Donald Trump on Tuesday and turning over the Senate to firm Republican control, voters guaranteed that all but the youngest of them will live under a deeply conservative high court for the rest of their lives.

People going to be able to get away with shyt like this for a long fukking time.
 
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