California

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BACKGROUND

California has attempted to implement various desegregation efforts, including an early effort to desegregate school districts in the wake of Mendez v. Westminister (1947), seven years before Brown v. Board of Education. State mandated desegregation measurers were enacted soon after, but repealed after voting referendums in the 1980s. Given the state’s increasing ELL population, the noteworthy civil rights case  Lau v. Nichols (1974), brought by Chinese American students in San Francisco, established that students are entitled to accommodations for limited English language proficiency under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. In 2014, UCLA’s Civil Rights Project/Project Derechos Humanos cited that California was the most segregated state for Latino students. Though there is currently no statewide integration initiative, local leaders are leading the charge through programs in in heavily segregated communities such as the Los Angeles Unified School District Student Integration Service.

 

MEDIA

 

ADVOCACY

 

OTHER RESOURCES

 

ACTIVE NSCD MEMBERS

  • Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy  
  • The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Humanos at UCLA 
  • Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley
  • National Organization (based in Los Angeles, CA) –MALDEF

 

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