Global emergencies resulting from conflict, human rights violations, and natural disasters have displaced more than 90 million people worldwide, half of whom are under 18. While the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) calls for sustainable (i.e. long-lasting) access to inclusive and quality education for all people by 2030,…

Conflict over community control and de facto segregation of schools represents only a struggle for power between blacks and whites. (Author)

Proposes Raul Yzaguirre, President of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), as a national leader for the Hispanic community. Addresses the need for unity among Hispanics and among minority groups. Summarizes Yzaguirre's career history and presents some criticism of the NCLR. Highlights issues such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, with…

The future stability of the Los Angeles school district as a single entity is questioned. Various problems that add instability to the system's present decentralization plans are discussed. Among them are achievement and academic performance. (Author/AM)

Against great odds, Japanese-Americans have become the most successful racial minority in U.S. history. However, the prognosis for maintenance of the ethnic community is not good. (Author/AM)

Draws on the relevant social science literature as well as on research in Crystal City and in other south Texas cities, and delineates and examines the problems which confront and may militate against the formation and effectiveness of Chicano political organizations at the local level. (Author/AM)

This article examines the New York City decentralization program and its implications for ultimate exclusion of those groups for which the original design intended mainstream decision making powers. (JC)

The issue of community control concerns the future role of parents in a changing school environment. It is vital that parental involvement be channeled toward positive and realistic goals such as defining the needs of children and determining how to meet these needs. To give parents access to decisionmakers, school boards should consider holding…

Examines the scope and variety of past demands for community-controlled schools in New York, which were especially visible in the actions of three groups: Irish Catholics in the 1840s; Jews in the period surrounding the turn of the century; Italians in the middle 1930s and early 1940s. (Author/JM)

Suggests the extent to and particular ways in which urban governments and school systems are undemocratic and unresponsive to community needs. Provides an example of the general inability of minority groups to obtain their social and political goals through either protest or political bargaining. (Author/AM)

Using three interpretations of community control, the attitudes of local elites in New York City were analyzed. Findings indicate substantial levels of support for some form of community control among both white and minority respondents. (Author/RLV)

An examination of alternative models of community-based colleges, designed by minority groups as institutional efforts to foster cultural pluralism and social mobility without their own cultural identity being compromised. This approach is evaluated and contrasted with the development of various bicultural or bilingual programs in which the…