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Download full textSpence, Beth – 1998
This report looks at recent educational history in West Virginia, particularly in Lincoln County, where school conditions stemming from poverty and politics resulted in the historic 1982 decision by Judge Arthur Recht. The Recht Decision found that the state's public schools failed to meet the "thorough and efficient" standard demanded…
Descriptors: Activism, Centralization, Consolidated Schools, Court Litigation
Passow, A. Harry – 1992
It is more than a quarter century since Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, the first major Federal legislation authorizing funds for compensatory education for the disadvantaged, came into effect. In 1981, Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) replaced Title I. Some Federal funding…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Context Effect
Prewitt, Steven W. – 2001
The history of San Felipe School District (Texas), 1894-1971, depicts a situation in which Mexican Americans had control of local schools. Established in the Mexican "barrio" of the racially divided border town of Del Rio, San Felipe resisted annexation to the Anglo school district and became an independent school district in 1929.…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Cultural Maintenance, De Facto Segregation, Disadvantaged Schools
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1872
The report provides abstracted reports from state, territorial, and city school officers. Information is also given on Indian education, educational conventions and institutes, education of the deaf and dumb, and education of the blind, as well as an annual review of foreign education. Special articles discuss education in the Hawaiian Islands,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Special Education, Deafness, Blindness
