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Rachel M. Perera – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Using newly available data on all civil rights complaints submitted to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights related to racial discrimination in discipline between 1999 and 2018, I provide the first systematic evidence on how modern federal civil rights enforcement is used to address racial discrimination in discipline. I find…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Racial Discrimination
Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. – 1999
This report describes the development of the juvenile justice system in the United States. It uses current data to look at where it is heading, and the recent trend of transferring certain juvenile cases to adult criminal court. Section 1 explains that the juvenile justice system was founded on the concept of rehabilitation through individualized…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Court Litigation, Criminal Law, Delinquency
Bulkley, Katrina – Education Law Center, 2007
Most of New Jersey's charter schools are located in the state's poorer, urban school districts, or "Abbott" districts, and exclusively serve students from those communities. A number of other schools are located outside of the Abbott districts but enroll students from these districts. Specifically, of the 50 charter schools operating in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Core Curriculum, Poverty
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2007
The purpose of this report is to examine what effect the increase in the number of schools obtaining unitary status has had on the racial balance of schools that were previously under court order. Specifically, the report examines whether levels of integration tend to erode as consent decrees are lifted. To that end, the Commission collected data…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Desegregation, Racial Composition, School Districts
Hall, John C.; And Others – 1982
This report summarizes data collected in the "most ambitious study of the out-of-state placement of children ever undertaken in America." It reports data gathered for the year 1978 from more than 20,000 public agencies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and from more than 50 counties, including 60,000 individual contacts. The volume is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Children, Court Litigation
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
Problems caused by the tax law and Department of the Treasury regulations related to the income exclusion for scholarships and fellowships and the deduction of job-related educational expenses were studied. Legislative changes that may reduce the amount of controversy generated by these two sections of the Internal Revenue Code are recommended. A…
Descriptors: College Students, Court Litigation, Discriminatory Legislation, Disqualification
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2005
The focus of the Forum's eleventh Study Group report is assessing what it will take for the state to respond to the court's findings in the decade-old Leandro lawsuit, a suit that challenged, among other things, the constitutionality of the state's current system of financing schools. The essence of the court's ruling is that: The state, as judged…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, School Law, Court Litigation, Educational Finance
Hirsch, Lesley – Education Law Center, 2006
New Jersey's urban--or "Abbott"--schools have improved at the preschool and elementary school level, but lag when it comes to middle and high school performance. These are the key findings of an Abbott Indicators Project report entitled, "The Abbott Districts in 2005-06: Progress and Challenges." The report was prepared by…
Descriptors: Reading Readiness, Dropout Programs, Graduation Rate, Dropout Prevention