Another skirmish in the equal education battle

Article Abstract:

The US Supreme Court, in Freeman v. Pitts, upheld a lower federal court's decision to terminate court supervision of De Kalb County, Georgia's school desegregation plan even though de facto segregation related to former legally-mandated segregation remained. Convinced by county officials that the residual segregation was due to residential patterns, the Supreme Court sided with the lower federal court in viewing compliance with desegregation orders as a gradual process best suited to local monitoring once major discriminatory practices, and not the effects of those practices, are rooted out.

Educational equalization, Equal education, Segregation in education, De facto school segregation

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The search for citizen-soldiers: female cadets and the campaign against the Virginia Military Institute

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The ruling by a US district court in Virginia in United States v. Commonwealth of Virginia improperly focused on outcome equivalency without considering whether the educational experiences at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership would be equivalent. Virginia established the women's school in response to an earlier sex discrimination suit, and the court was reconsidering the plan. Ignoring the differences in experiences at the two schools essentially accepts the separate-but-equal rationale long since rejected for race.

Sex discrimination against women, Single-sex schools, Single sex schools, Virginia Military Institute

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Limiting federal court power to impose school desegregation remedies

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The US Supreme Court's decision in Missouri v. Jenkins striking down the US district court's whole desegregation plan for the Kansas City, Missouri, School District was unsupported and extended far beyond the action requested by the state. Missouri asked only to have salary increases and remedial class funding struck down as outside the scope of the desegregation plan. The Supreme Court chose to further limit court authority to act against historical discrimination as well as turning a blind eye to evidence of such discrimination.

Missouri, Federal jurisdiction

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