Endless Journey: Integration and the Provision of Equal Educational Opportunity in Denver's Public Schools: A Study of Keyes v. School District No. 1

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James Fishman

Pace University - School of Law

Lawrence Strauss

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: 1989

Abstract

Denver was the first non-Southern City to undergo extensive litigation over the desegregation of its schools. In this context, it has become a mirror for the way America deals with its most pressing social problem: the integration of minorities into the educational, political and economic mainstream through equal educational opportunity. This study examines the difficulties of implementing a desegregation plan that would result in a unitary public school system and developing a plan that would provide an equal educational opportunity to the large hispano minority. We concentrate upon the implementation efforts after 1976 when Judge Richard Matsch was assigned to the case. The liability phase and the initial implementation efforts have been chronicled in detail elsewhere.

Suggested Citation

Fishman, James and Strauss, Lawrence, Endless Journey: Integration and the Provision of Equal Educational Opportunity in Denver's Public Schools: A Study of Keyes v. School District No. 1 (1989). Howard Law Journal, Vol. 32, p. 627, 1989, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1509703

James Fishman (Contact Author)

Pace University - School of Law ( email )

78 North Broadway
White Plains, NY 10603
United States

Lawrence Strauss

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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