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Download full textAlex Spurrier; Bonnie O'Keefe; Jennifer O'Neal Schiess – Bellwether, 2023
Many recent critical reforms in state school finance systems have been catalyzed by the courthouse, not the statehouse. Advocates for equity-focused school finance reforms often consider legal action as the best path to significant policy changes. This brief discusses state-level lawsuits on adequacy and equity grounds and their outcomes.
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
Eaton, 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
Niemeyer, Arielle – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2014
Delaware's history with school desegregation is complicated and contradictory. The state both advanced and impeded the goals of "Brown v. Board of Education." After implementing desegregation plans that were ineffective by design, Delaware was ultimately placed under the first metropolitan, multi-district desegregation court order in the…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Resegregation, State Legislation, Desegregation Litigation
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
