aI learned a great deal, even though I thought I had known or read
all these cases. I was wrong. Valencia has corrected this record in
an authoritative fashion that has set the bar for the rest of us.a
--Michael A. Olivas, editor of "aColored Men andHombres AquA-a"
In 1925 Adolfo aBabea Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe,
Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his
four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly
low-quality segregated school, and won. But "Romo v. Laird" was
just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican Americans as one of
the most poorly educated ethnic groups in the United States.
Chicano Students and the Courts is a comprehensive look at this
communityas long-standing legal struggle for better schools and
educational equality. Through the lens of critical race theory,
Valencia details why and how Mexican American parents and their
children have been forced to resort to legal action.
Chicano Students and the Courts engages the many areas that have
spurred Mexican Americans to legal battle, including school
segregation, financing, special education, bilingual education,
school closures, undocumented students, higher education financing,
and high-stakes testing, ultimately situating these legal efforts
in the broader scope of the Mexican American communityas overall
struggle for the right to an equal education. Extensively
researched, and written by an author with first-hand experience in
the courtroom as an expert witness in Mexican American education
cases, this volume is the first to provide an in-depth
understanding of the intersection of litigation and education vis-A
-vis Mexican Americans.
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