In America, 98% of students go to our public schools. They are needed but have been critiqued for years after, Brown v. Board of Education. Even local Private schools started letter writing campaigns to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren for his facilitation of a 9-0 vote on the Brown cases. In the 1980s, A Nation at Risk, took the debate further in that is said our public schools are worsening. Currently, states across the nation know undergraduate students do not want to go into the teaching profession and shortages are everywhere. President Trump has said "I'm a tremendous believer in education." Many of you in class have wondered about the ending of slavery and what came next to educate americans freed from slavery, Irish immigrants, and the less fortunate.
There were many battles after 1865, through Reconstruction, to the 1970s, and many legal cases were brought to the courts to create equality for all students. Ward v. Flood was important because it preceded both the Mendez, and Brown, and Spangler cases. Schools were already trying to create equality with the 14th Amendment just some years after its passing by the Federal government. The equal protection clause has been and still is very controversial in our country.
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