Chicano Students and the Courts : : The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality / / Richard R. Valencia.
In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican Amer...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical America ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 13 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 School Segregation
- 2 School Financing
- 3 Special Education
- 4 Bilingual Education
- 5 School Closures
- 6 Undocumented Students
- 7 Higher Education Financing
- 8 High-Stakes Testing
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author