A Nationwide Scandal: Children Used as Pawns in Racial Gerrymandering Schemes

Even in red states, school districts defy the Constitution's prohibition of racial discrimination.

In defiance of the Constitution and multiple Supreme Court rulings, school districts across the nation continue to engage in racial gerrymandering in school zoning. Districts are openly using race as a determining factor in redistricting decisions to meet "racial diversity" goals.

Dozens of school districts across the nation participate in a so-called "integration" initiative led by The Bridges Collaborative. This includes 27 school districts, including in red states such as Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Florida. Their goal is to make school districts more "diverse and inclusive."

The Century Foundation funds this effort by The Bridges Collaborative to advocate for race-based school redistricting. They call it "integration," but using the race of a child to determine which school they will attend is blatant racial discrimination.

Defying the Constitution and Supreme Court Rulings

The landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) case ended the legalized racial segregation of schools. No longer were school districts permitted to decide school attendance zones based on the race of a child. Many schools continued to defy the ruling and then the high court issued another similar ruling in Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968).

Green ruled that it was the school board's responsibility to "achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis," reiterating Brown.

In yet another case, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007), the high court ruled that the excuse of "racial diversity" as a reason to use race as a deciding factor in admissions is unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the opinion, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." The Roberts court reiterated the only way race could be used is if there was a compelling state interest under strict scrutiny—not simply for reasons of "diversity."

The Supreme Court recently ruled in Louisiana v. Callais (2026) that drawing race-based voting districts is unconstitutional—a violation of the Fifteenth Amendment's prohibition on intentional racial discrimination. While not specifically related to school districts, this case reiterates the court's historical stance against governmental racial quotas.

In 2026, Democrats are still defying the courts.

Pushing a Radical Anti-American Agenda

The Century Foundation is a far-left group whose agenda includes the elimination of Israel, taxpayer funded universal childcare, and birth control pills to be made available without a prescription.

In 2020, The Bridges Collaborative director, Stefan Lallinger, said "COVID-19 and the racial reckoning we're experiencing underscore that the fight for racial and economic justice is far from over. To have any shot at winning that fight, we must first tackle the rampant inequities and segregation in our nation's education system. That's exactly what the Bridges Collaborative was built for."

One of the participating school districts in the Bridges Collaborative program is Winston Salem Forsythe County Schools (WS/FCS) in North Carolina. WS/FCS emphasizes the need for racial diversity in their school assignment policy. The district even admits it considers "demographic shifts" in their five-year review cycle related to school boundaries. WS/FCS declares in a "Fostering Diverse Schools Demonstration Program" grant application, for which they received $943,000, that they sought "racial equity" in school integration. The application also admits WS/FCS "revised their school assignment policy to include language on racial and socioeconomic diversity." The application was clear—WS/FCS seeks to adjust school attendance boundaries based on race.

It's not just districts participating in the Bridges Collaborative program that are defying the Constitution. In Virginia, Williamsburg James City County schools openly admit to using race as a guiding principle in their current redistricting process.

The Tucson Unified School District in Arizona also establishes raced-based criteria in their regulations for drawing new school boundaries. The district had been under federal supervision since 1978 over its decades-old racial segregation problems. However, a Trump-appointed judge released the district from that oversight in 2025 saying, "It simply is not the law that all racial disparity must be eliminated before a desegregation degree can be extinguished." Yet, the district continues to use race as a factor in creating school boundary zones.

Even Kentucky's largest school district uses race-based guidelines for school zoning. Jefferson County Public Schools use a "diversity index" which includes "median household income, the percentage of non-white population, and the average level of adult educational attainment in the block group to yield a single category." Schools are required to maintain a score 1.4-2.5 range on a 3.0 scale.

Dallas Independent School District in Texas uses demographic data, including race, to design their attendance zones.

Tucson, Jefferson, and Dallas all participated in the Bridges Collaborative initiative.

If school districts in these red states use race-based admissions practices in their divisions, how widespread are such policies across the nation?

The persistence of race-based school zoning practices across the nation reveals a troubling pattern of defiance. Despite repeated Supreme Court mandates to establish color blind practices, activist school boards and left-wing dark money megadonors continue to prioritize racial balancing over equal treatment under the law. This isn't integration, it's racial gerrymandering that treats children as demographic chess pieces. The Constitution demands nothing less than a return to true equal opportunity, where school assignments are based on merit, geography, and individual choice, not skin color.

Parents and taxpayers must demand investigations and accountability for districts who continue to defy the law.

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