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Despite judicial mandates to desegregate the nation's school systems, most minority students, particularly those in urban areas, are still being educated in segregated environments. Efforts of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government to provide an equal education are at best lax and at worst, and more frequently, contradictory and ineffectual. A consistent policy is needed to correct the deficiencies in the education minorities receive. Furthermore, this policy needs to take into consideration factors which have a significant impact on minorities, such as inaccessbility to equal housing and employment opportunities.
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Hirt, J. Current federal policies on school desegregation: Constitutional justice or benign neglect?. Urban Rev 13, 57–63 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01956007
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