Tucson, AZ – A federal court of appeals should dismiss a request by Tucson education officials to end a decades-long desegregation case because the district failed to make that request in the lower court, according to a motion...
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA — The New Mexico Public Education Department has publicly stated that it intends to appeal a court ruling that the state has failed to live up to its constitutional obligation to provide a sufficient education to...
Read MoreIn Martinez v. State of New Mexico, a state court ruled that New Mexico’s education system violates the state constitution because it fails to provide all students an adequate public education.
Read MoreSanta Fe, NM – A state court ruled today that New Mexico’s education system violates the state constitution because it fails to provide students a sufficient public education. Families and school districts in the...
Read MoreSacramento, CA – In a ruling that recognizes the critical right of all parents to participate in their children’s education, a federal court today rejected Gustine, California school officials’ attempt to dismiss a Latina...
Read MoreLawsuit alleges that the principal of an elementary school in Merced County, California, violated a Latina mother’s constitutional rights by banning her from campus in response to criticisms of her son’s treatment in class.
Read MoreSanta Fe, NM – Attorneys from MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty (the Center) have filed closing briefs for their consolidated lawsuit (Martinez v....
Read MoreCivil Rights Groups Battled for Three Years to Stop Discriminatory Practices Denying Students Their Educational Rights.
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – On June 15, 1982, the United States Supreme Court handed down a historic ruling that guaranteed all children access to a free public education from kindergarten to 12th grade, regardless of immigration...
Read MoreBill Deserves Conditional Support WASHINGTON, DC — MALDEF has long called for a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), but has insisted that any reauthorization must embody the law’s civil...
Read MoreTravis County District Cour Declares Current Texas School Finance System Unconstitutional — Again Current Finance System Violates Students’ Rights to an Adequate and Equitable Education AUSTIN, TX — Today, Travis County...
Read MoreColorado Supreme Court Fails to Provide Remedy for Underserved Students in Landmark School Finance Case ELL and low-income students will remain hostage to an arbitrary and irrational funding system for Colorado schools DENVER,...
Read MoreAppellate Court also finds that school districts may file for release from desegregation order
Read MoreIn 1970, Judge William Wayne Justice of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Texas ordered the State of Texas and nine school districts to remedy past discrimination that continued to harm the educational...
Read MoreMALDEF filed this desegregation case on behalf of Latino parents and students in 1974. In 1978, after the trial court found that effects of past intentional segregation remained in the District, the parties settled the case...
Read MoreTexas desegregation case filed in 1970 on behalf of children and parents from Uvalde public schools
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