Education Week’s School Law Blog today published a comprehensive list of legal decisions made by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. One of her decisions included alleged racism at the school bus stop.
The case centers on a 6-year-old African American boy, whose parents complained of racism after transferring him into a district located in Wallingford, Conn. Shortly after the alleged incidents on the bus or at the bus stop, the child was also transferred from his first grade class into kindergarten. But Sotomayor and another judge ruled that it could neither be proved that the district intentionally discriminate against the boy nor that his demotion to a lower grade was a result of anything other than district discovering that the boy had learning challenges.
