'Public education is not a private commodity. It is a public good. The federal government is obligated to ensure — just as Justice Warren wrote — that it is made available to all on equal terms.'
George E.C. Hayes, left, Thurgood Marshall and James M. Nabrit join hands outside the Supreme Court in Washington on May 17, 1954, after justices declared in the Brown v. Board of Education decision that"separate but equal" schools for black children were unconstitutional. By Valerie Strauss Valerie Strauss Reporter covering education, foreign affairs Email Bio Follow Reporter April 30 at 2:08 PM The historic Supreme Court ruling in Brown v.
Unlike Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has said she does not want the federal government involved in education policy, Scott says there is a clear federal role. Today, we are here to discuss our responsibility to fulfill the promise of educational equity, which was ordered 65 years ago in the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
But the court’s historic ruling was not the end of school segregation, it was the beginning of a long and difficult struggle to unwind centuries of systemic inequality that have influenced every aspect of American life. The relationship between integration and resources is often overlooked but cannot be overstated. Court-ordered desegregation not only substantially reduced racial segregation, it also led to a dramatic increase in per-pupil spending -- an average increase of more than 20 percent per student.
The election of President Nixon started a steady retreat from federal enforcement of school desegregation, which was continued by Presidents Reagan and first President Bush. More importantly, conservatives recognized that the same institution that started the movement toward school desegregation could be used to stop it.
One example was the appropriations rider that started in the 1970s that prohibited the use of federal funds for transportation of students for the purpose of school integration. That rider was just removed last year. One of Secretary [Betsy] DeVos’ first actions as secretary of education was to eliminate the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant program, a voluntary program to support school districts in creating locally driven strategies to increase school diversity and improve student achievement and equity of educational opportunity for disadvantaged students. That program would have helped local jurisdiction develop desegregation plans that could withstand constitutional challenges.
The benefits are not merely limited to academics. Just five years of attending court-ordered desegregated schools significantly increased Black workers’ earnings and significantly reduced their likelihood of experiencing poverty.
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