How has desegregation improved schools today? Did it make a difference to desegregate all the schools? Desegregation has allowed all students the right to a free and equal education. “Desegregation was never meant to be a remedy for low test scores. Rather, it was and is one underlying condition with potential to engender higher-quality schooling, improved race relations, and, in the long run a more democratic, more equal society” (Eaton 3). Desegregation has allowed all students the right to a free and equal education.
When did segregation begin and has it ended? What law states free and equal education for everyone? The U.S. Supreme Court’s case Brown v. Board of Education eventually concluded that it was unconstitutional that separate but equal educational environments for all races. Which did not give equal protection to African Americans of laws which is guaranteed by the 14th. Which destroyed the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision which established separate but equal. In Brown v. Board of Education, Oliver Brown from Topeka, Kansas sued the school board in his city because of his
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If we have money to have a war with Afghanistan, to soon send 100 people to colonize Mars, as well as give the wealthy a tax break. Then we can certainly reduce poverty through programs like Medicaid and Food Banks that could help children that are in need (Edelman and James 135). The nation’s per capita wealth and our resources to end poverty has nearly doubled over 30 years ago. But we have more children that live below the poverty line today than before. Poverty is the situation of having little or no money, benefits, or ways of support; state of being poor. Poverty by race is 39% of African-American children, 34% Hispanics, 13% Asian and 12% White (U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census). Did you know 40 years ago, the war on poverty was officially