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Linguistic Profiling In Education: How Accent Bias Denies Equal Educational Opportunities To Students Of Color., William Y. Chin Sep 2010

Linguistic Profiling In Education: How Accent Bias Denies Equal Educational Opportunities To Students Of Color., William Y. Chin

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

desegregation, education civil rights, Meagan Field, Jennifer Solak, William Chin, Monica Aguon, No Child Left Behind, Minority Student, The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues, Limited English Proficient (LEP).


A Thousand Humiliations: What Brown Could Not Do., Bryan L. Adamson Dec 2007

A Thousand Humiliations: What Brown Could Not Do., Bryan L. Adamson

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

While Brown v. Board of Education sought to integrate the public school system, fifty years later many public schools remain racially identifiable. African American and Latino students attend schools which are overwhelmingly comprised of minorities. Some racially isolated schools even experienced a rise in their minority student population after the decision in Brown. While the decision narrowed racial disparities in schools, such disparities remain distressing. Data shows a large disparity in the number of higher educational degrees earned by African American and White individuals. Additionally, wage earnings of African Americans are significantly smaller compared to White wage earnings. Educational outcomes …


What About Our Future - The Chaos That Is The Texas School Finance System., Brian Stork Mar 2006

What About Our Future - The Chaos That Is The Texas School Finance System., Brian Stork

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

The current school finance system has failed to address the changing demographics of the state and has serious, long lasting negative effects on disadvantaged students by not providing better funding, services, or facilities. None of the attempts made to fix this glaring problem of inequity within the Texas school finance system has done anything besides point out these blatant flaws and patchwork approach to solving them. Judge Dietz concluded that since the current school finance system does not properly meet the general diffusion of knowledge requirement proscribed by Article VII, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution, it is inadequate and …


Do Minorities Really Benefit? The Untold Truth About Vouchers, Marie A. Galindo Jan 1999

Do Minorities Really Benefit? The Untold Truth About Vouchers, Marie A. Galindo

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Abstract forthcoming