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Direct linkSuárez, Bianca Ayanna – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background/Context: Urban educational systems have garnered focused examination as bastions of educational inequity, particularly along race and class cleavages. These systems are often cited as inefficient bureaucratic institutions plagued by financial mismanagement and political corruption that produce dismal achievement outcomes. Contemporary…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
Superfine, Benjamin Michael; Thompson, Alea R. – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
In "Vergara v. California" (2014), a trial-level court ruled that California laws governing teacher tenure and dismissal were unconstitutional. This study analyzes "Vergara" in light of the shifting use of the courts to promote equal educational opportunities and the changing power bases of educational interest groups,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Educational Change
Download full textEaton, Susan – Abell Foundation, 2013
As of summer 2012, there are 31 interdistrict magnet schools in the Greater Hartford region of Connecticut, including those at The Learning Corridor (a 14-acre compound with roughly 1,570 students in attendance among an elementary, middle, and two high schools), enrolling about 13,000 students and supported by a mix of state, local, and…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Equal Education, Public Schools, School Desegregation
Frels, Kelly – 1981
Chapter 21 of a book on school law traces the development of metropolitan interdistrict school desegregation. Historically, the first multidistrict cases were filed to secure the desegregation of intentionally segregated school districts. Subsequently, multidistrict cases were filed in metropolitan areas where there were so few white students…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Educational Quality
Feldman, Joseph; And Others – 1994
In 1974, the Supreme Court in "Milliken v. Bradley" blocked a major effort to desegregate isolated urban areas by establishing stringent legal standards that made it very difficult for plaintiffs to include suburbs in desegregation remedies. Three years later a second Milliken decision (Milliken II) authorized lower Federal courts to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects
Orfield, Gary; And Others – 1989
This report examines national, state, and metropolitan trends in the desegregation of U.S. public schools, based on federal enrollment statistics. The data indicate that the White majority is declining, and that Hispanic, Asian, American Indian enrollments are growing rapidly. There has been no overall change in Black segregation on a national…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students, De Facto Segregation
