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Gandara, Patricia; Orfield, Gary – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background:This study grew out of a recent Supreme Court case known as "Horne v Flores." The case began in 1992 in Nogales, Arizona when a 4th grade English learner (EL), Miriam Flores, sued the district and the state for failing to provide her (and other EL students) with an appropriate education as guaranteed by the Equal Educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Educational Opportunities, Emotional Development
Frankenberg, Erica; Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve; Wang, Jia – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2010
Seven years after the Civil Rights Project first documented extensive patterns of charter school segregation, the charter sector continues to stratify students by race, class and possibly language. This study is released at a time of mounting federal pressure to expand charter schools, despite on-going and accumulating evidence of charter school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Civil Rights, Income, School Segregation
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Powers, Jeanne M. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2008
This article documents the efforts by Mexican Americans to challenge school segregation in Arizona in the first half of the twentieth century. As in Texas and California, although state law never formally mandated the segregation of Mexican American students, school districts in Arizona often established separate "Mexican Schools" for…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Mexican Americans, School Segregation, Hispanic Americans