Federal Judge Nix Kamehameha Policy.

KAMEHAMEHA Schools; DISCRIMINATION in education; SCHOOL admission; SCHOOL administration; PRIVATE schools; BYBEE, Jay S., 1953-

HONOLULU (Hawaii); HAWAII

This article reports that the practice by the private Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii of restricting admission to children of Native Hawaiian descent is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled last week. Judge Jay S. Bybee, writing for a two-judge majority of a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in San Francisco, California, said that the schools' admissions policy, which operates in practice as an absolute bar to admission for those of the non-preferred race, constitutes unlawful race discrimination and violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The private schools, founded in 1887, are supported by a $6 billion trust, endowed by Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, a great-granddaughter of the king who united the Hawaiian islands in 1810.