Focus (Forum & Focus)
Oct. 9, 2007
Equalizing Education
Forum Column - By Cynthia Valenzuela - As one Arizona school district looks poised to implement the Supreme Court's recent school segregation ruling, a veteran of earlier integration struggles shares how lessons from the past can shape new efforts.
By Cynthia Valenzuela
As we celebrated the bravery of the Little Rock Nine and their historic role in school integration in late September, I reflected on my own small role in school integration. In 1974, as my public school education began in a small kindergarten class at Brichta Elementary in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a case challenging the segregated school sys...
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