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Download full textCahn, Claude; Chirico, David – 1999
This report examines the over-representation of Romani children in special schools for the mentally handicapped in the Czech Republic, reviewing the history of Roma in the Czech Republic, detailing problems in educating Romani children (who are segregated from non-Romani children), and discussing the inferior quality of remedial education. The…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
California State Equal Educational Opportunities Commission, Sacramento. – 1975
This report contains information on the constitutional decision to prevent and eliminate racial and ethnic segregation in the State of California. The implications of the California Supreme Court decision on the constitutional duty of schools to eliminate segregated education are presented, along with the State Board of Education declaration of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Peer reviewedDunn, Christopher – Equity & Excellence in Education, 1999
Describes the conditions that prompted the filing of a federal lawsuit on behalf of students attending high-minority schools in New York State alleging that the state's education system violates the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. Examines the academic achievement of children in high- versus low-minority schools, noting educational policies,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Disadvantaged Youth
Carrera, John Willshire – 1989
This document is a guide to the immigrant student's legal right of access to public schools based on the 1982 United States Supreme Court ruling in "Plyler v. Doe" (457 U.S. 202). Following an introduction, the first of three sections, "School Practices," addresses everyday school practices by outlining prohibited and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Advocacy, Civil Rights, Court Litigation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1972
Contents of these hearings include: (1) U.S. Supreme Court School Desegregation Cases; (2) School Desegregation Cases with Metropolitan Implications; (3) Other School Desegregation Cases; (4) State Desegregation Law Cases; (5) School Finance Cases; and, (6) Equal Opportunity in Housing Cases. (SB)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Classroom Desegregation, Compensatory Education
Carrera, John Willshire – 1992
This updated version of a 1989 document of the same title represents a guide to the immigrant student's legal right of access to public schools based on the 1982 United States Supreme Court ruling in "Plyler v. Doe." Following an introduction, the first of three sections, "School Practices," addresses everyday school practices…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Advocacy, Civil Rights, Court Litigation
Equal Educational Opportunity: The State of the Law. ERIC-CUE Urban Disadvantaged Series, Number 48.
Glickstein, Howard A. – 1976
This paper addresses the state of the law of equal educational opportunity. Among the laws, acts, and statutes addressed are the following: the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the implementation of school desegregation in the North and South, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Educational…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation
