Court Cases Education

Court finds the State’s current system unconstitutional and requires funding to be based on actual costs of providing a thorough and uniform system of public education

Funding for at-risk students is inadequate and irrational

MALDEF seeks equality for at-risk and English Language Learner Students

Community mourns loss of iconic United Farm Worker leader, brother to Cesar Chavez, and partner-in-life to Dolores Huerta

MALDEF Suit Seeks Reforms of Practices that Created Hostile Learning Environment and Deprived Student of Equal Opportunity

Court mandates continued federal monitoring of Tucson Unified School District desegregation policies

LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, MALDEF applauded the California Supreme Court’s ruling in Martinez v. Regents, upholding the California law known as AB 540. AB 540 provides a waiver of out-of-state tuition fees at California’s public colleges and universities for students – regardless of immigration status – who have completed three years at a California high school and have attained a high school diploma, or the equivalent thereof.

Appellate Court also finds that school districts may file for release from desegregation order

Denver, CO – Today, MALDEF filed legal papers on behalf of several Colorado families seeking to join the state school finance lawsuit, Lobato v. Colorado. The families seek a ruling that Colorado’s inadequate school funding for low income and English Language Learner students violates their rights under the Colorado Constitution. The parents and children represent different regions of the state, including Mapleton, Sheridan, Rocky Ford and Greeley.

Ruling comports with MALDEF’s argument in amicus brief by rejecting lawsuit seeking to dismantle affirmative action admissions plan

AUSTIN, TX – Earlier today, a federal district court denied the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) request to put on hold the court’s order that requires TEA to remedy its language programs for English Language Learner (ELL) children across Texas in the long-standing case, US v. Texas. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the Multicultural Education, Training and Advocacy, Inc. (META), on behalf of LULAC and the GI Forum, hotly contested TEA’s Motion to Stay Proceedings Pending Appeal filed just weeks ago and urged the Court to hold TEA to the current deadline of January 31, 2009.