LOS ANGELES – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s new memo that seeks to...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – A New Mexico state court today rejected an argument by state officials that they had complied with a historic 2018 education ruling and should be released from a court’s order. Earlier this year, New Mexico...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – A split panel of a federal court of appeals erred when it upheld a ruling dismissing a lawsuit filed against a principal who threatened to call immigration officials on a parent, according to civil rights...
Read MoreSANTA FE, NEW MEXICO – Civil rights attorneys are asking a judge to strike a request by New Mexico officials to end a landmark education case that requires the state to address longstanding deficiencies in the K-12 public...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – A national civil rights organization is asking the Huntington Beach City School District to reconsider efforts to shutter a school that serves the highest concentration of Latino and socioeconomically disadvantaged...
Read MoreAugust 2012: The New Mexico Latino Education Task Force announces MALDEF’s plan to investigate the cause of the achievement gaps for students of color. MALDEF announces that if necessary, it will sue the State of New Mexico,...
Read MoreSAN ANTONIO, TX – MALDEF attorneys sent a letter to a Texas school district Friday warning that it was in violation of the U.S. Constitution for treating parents with foreign government-issued identification differently than...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) is pleased to announce the recipients in its 2018-19 Law School Scholarship Program. Since MALDEF’s founding, the civil rights organization has awarded...
Read MoreFresno, CA. – A California Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that students and community organizations may sue the State of California, through the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for failing to monitor and hold school...
Read MoreSACRAMENTO, CA – A federal court dismissed a First Amendment lawsuit today after a Northern California school district agreed to a settlement with a mother who charged the district with barring her from her son’s elementary...
Read MoreTUCSON, AZ – A federal court of appeals Monday dismissed a request by Tucson education officials to end a decades-long desegregation case because the district failed to make that request in a lower court. The order from the...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES – Adelanto Elementary School District board members voted earlier this week to switch from an at-large election system to a single-member system in response to a letter from MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and...
Read MoreBAKERSFIELD, Ca. – A coalition of Latino and Black students, their parents, community groups and the Kern County Office of Education (KCOE) have reached a settlement of a lawsuit involving a dispute over the enrollment of...
Read MoreTUCSON, AZ – A federal court of appeals should dismiss a request by Tucson education officials to end a decades-long desegregation case because the district failed to make that request in the lower court, according to a motion...
Read MoreLOS ANGELES — The New Mexico Public Education Department has publicly stated that it intends to appeal a court ruling that the state has failed to live up to its constitutional obligation to provide a sufficient education to all...
Read MoreIn Martinez v. State of New Mexico, a state court ruled that New Mexico’s education system violates the state constitution because it fails to provide all students an adequate public education.
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