When good faith is not enough: Ensuring education equity during and after legal intervention

This paper seeks to address ever-increasing challenges facing schools in the midst of desegregation or racial balancing plans and procedures. It discusses the need for school districts across the country under consent decrees to return to the drawing board in finding an alternative plan for desegregation and education equity measures that will keep them in line with constitutional mandates. The most recent Supreme Court rulings in Seattle and Louisville have altered the landscape of remedial grounds for which cases can be brought before the courts. Moreover, they indicate a pronounced shift in legal discourses surrounding programs and initiatives that utilize race as a factor in developing educational policy.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Policy Studies

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Enyia, Amarachuku C.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Trent, William T.
• Anderson, James D.
• Hood, Stafford
• Parker, Laurence J.
• Span, Christopher M.

• education equity
• consent decree
• legal intervention
• racial balancing
• desegregation litigation
• remedy

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2011 Amarachuku C. Enyia

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/24179

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/24179