Ohio School Law: Desegregation and Race Discrimination

NONDISCRIMINATION UNDER PROGRAMS RECEIVING FEDERAL ASSISTANCE THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION EFFECTUATION OF TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964

UC Cincinnati 11/20/24

National Education Policy Center report 2023

GAO Report 2022

Stream the movie about about the racially charged events at Linden-McKinley High School in 1971.

Yahoo 3/9/23

2/14/25 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

2/25/25 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

Ohio Capital Journal 3/5/25

Segregation of white and Black children in the public schools of a state solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Black children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

4/25/24

School system did not discriminate against Asian American students when it changed admissions criteria for magnet schools. The US Supreme Court denied cert.

Virginia Court of Appeals says that anti-racism policy does not violated white students' rights.

Ohio Capital Journal 7/18/22

Ohio Capital Journal 11/10/22

Virginia Court of Appeals says that anti-racism policy does not violated white students' rights.

Ohio Capitol Journal 7/15/21

NBC News 10/28/21

Addressed to US Dept of Education and signed by Dave Yost, Ohio Attorney General, as well as several other state's attorneys general on 5/19/21

Cincinnati Enquirer 6/22/22

No State shall deny equal educational opportunity to an individual on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin.

The failure of an educational agency to attain a balance, on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin, of students among its schools shall not constitute a denial of equal educational opportunity, or equal protection of the laws.

Assignment on students on a neighborhood basis not a denial of equal educational opportunity.

No court of the United States shall order the implementation of any plan to remedy a finding of segregation which involves the transportation of students, unless the court first finds that all alternative remedies are inadequate.

Civil rights in public education

School officials must ensure that no person shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin be excluded from participation in, be denied benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

A Republican state senator has reintroduced a controversial proposal to massively overhaul higher education in Ohio, including a ban on diversity and inclusion efforts as well as a ban on labor strikes by faculty and staff.

Sonja Starr, v. 76 Stanford Law Review (2024)

Matthew Coles, 22 HASTINGS RACE & POVERTY L.J. 47 (2025).