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12 sty 1981 · The complaint charged that the defendant State of Texas and its agents, including the Texas Education Agency (hereinafter referred to as "TEA"), had created and maintained nine all-Black school districts throughout the state and had failed to provide equal educational opportunity without regard to race.
7 lis 2018 · One such condition—known as the “maintenance of state financial support” (“MFS”) clause—prohibits a state from reducing the amount of state financial support made available for special education and related services below the amount for the previous fiscal year. See 20 U.S.C. § 1412 (a) (18) (A).
With these words, the Texas Constitution orders state government to provide a free public education to the state’s schoolchildren — a single sentence representing perhaps the most difficult continuing challenge faced by generations of Texas lawmakers.
10 lis 2016 · University of Texas at Austin (Fisher II), the Court held that the University of Texas had presented sufficient evidence to establish that its pursuit of the educational benefits of diversity through a race-conscious admissions policy satisfied the Court’s demanding strict scrutiny inquiry.
7 lis 2018 · Indeed, Texas claims to have funded special education according to the diverse instructional arrangements that its students need to succeed. But the state admits that those needs are determined by an “individualized education program” team.
Fisher v University of Texas at Austin1 had a long, strange trip at the Supreme Court. Fisher was the Court’s latest encounter with affirmative action in higher education. In 2012, the Court granted certiorari in the case to review a decision by the Fifth Circuit that upheld the university’s affirmative action plan. 2 Aspects of the case ...
Originally filed in 1984, the case went to trial early in. On June 1, 1987, the trial court held the school finance of the state unconstitutional on both "equal protection" and the "efficiency" clause of the state's education article.1.
