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Author Rebell, Michael A.

Title Courts and kids : pursuing educational equity through the state courts / Michael A. Rebell.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-178) and index.
Contents Educational policy making and the courts -- The state courts' active new role -- Defining success in sound basic education litigations -- Crafting effective remedies : comparative institutional perspective -- Implementing successful remedies : a model for constitutional compliance -- Confronting the political realities.
Summary Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation. In the meantime, state courts have taken up the mantle of promoting the vision of educational equity originally articulated in Brown v. Board of Education. Courts and Kids is the first detailed analysis of why the state courts have taken on this active role and how successful their efforts have been. Since 1973, litigants have challenged the constitutionality of education finance systems in forty-five states on the grounds that they deprive many poor and minority students o.
Note Description based on print version record.
GMD: electronic resource.
Subject Educational equalization -- United States.
Educational law and legislation -- United States.
Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Other Form: Print version: Rebell, Michael A. Courts and kids. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009 9780226706191 (DLC) 2009015673 (OCoLC)317922592
ISBN 9780226706184 electronic bk.
0226706184 electronic bk.
9786612426834
6612426837
9780226706191 cloth alkaline paper
0226706192 cloth alkaline paper
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