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Shifting From Race To Ethnicity In Higher Education., Pratheep Sevanthinathan Oct 2006

Shifting From Race To Ethnicity In Higher Education., Pratheep Sevanthinathan

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

Abstract Forthcoming.


A Pregnant Teenager's Right To Education In Texas., Amber Hausenfluck Oct 2006

A Pregnant Teenager's Right To Education In Texas., Amber Hausenfluck

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

Texas must work to better protect the legal rights of pregnant teenagers within its school districts. Without statewide requirements to ensure the elimination of pregnancy discrimination against students, school districts’ policies vary greatly and often include policies counter to the protections afforded both in Title IX and the Texas Education Code. Title IX requires the choice to attend an alternative school be completely voluntary. However, upon inspection, many Texas schools seem to violate this requirement by compelling or pressuring pregnant students to attend alternative education programs instead of adequately informing them of their educational options. The Texas Education Code guarantees …


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 …