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Educating Our Children "On Equal Terms": The Failure Of The Dejure/Defacto Analysis In Desegregation Cases, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Educating Our Children "On Equal Terms": The Failure Of The Dejure/Defacto Analysis In Desegregation Cases, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
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This Article will describe the narrow process oriented analysis and contrast it with the broader analysis of both the process and the results. It will demonstrate the different conceptual framework involved in evaluating each component. This Article will show how the Supreme Court has viewed educational equality following Plessy v. Ferguson. Initially, the Court's evaluation was quite perfunctory, but it became increasingly strict. By 1954, the Court in Brown v. Board of EducationI was well on its way toward evaluating the results as well as the process. Since Brown, the Court has vacillated between reviewing only the purity of the …