Mar 23, 2010 | Court Cases Education, News Releases
NEW ORLEANS, LA– Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling in favor of middle and high school English Language Learner students in the long-standing school desegregation case, US v. Texas, and ordered the trial court to determine “the...
Mar 23, 2010 | Court Cases Education, Court Cases Immigrants' Rights, Public Policy, Public Policy Education
In 1970, Judge William Wayne Justice of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Texas ordered the State of Texas and nine school districts to remedy past discrimination that continued to harm the educational achievement of minority students in the...
Feb 16, 2010 | PP Voting Rights, Public Policy
The deadline to apply to serve on California’s new Citizens Redistricting Commission has been extended to February 16, 2010 at 5 p.m. We still need qualified Latinos to apply. Please submit your application online to WeDrawTheLines.ca.gov. In 2008, California voters...
Jan 18, 2010 | News Releases, Public Policy, Public Policy Education
My name is Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon and I am the National Director of Litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). It is fitting today, on the day that we celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his receipt of the Nobel...
Jan 18, 2010 | Court Cases Education
MALDEF filed this desegregation case on behalf of Latino parents and students in 1974. In 1978, after the trial court found that effects of past intentional segregation remained in the District, the parties settled the case through a Stipulation of Settlement which...
