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  1. Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, 1968, p. 432 (hereinafterKerner Report).

  2. James Coleman et al.,Equality of Educational Opportunity. (National Center for Educational Statistics, U.S. Office of Education) Washington: Government Printing Office, 1966, pp. 68–69, 71x (hereinafterColeman Report).

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  5. Riles Report, 157.

  6. Id. at 158.

  7. W. Wolf and W.C. Wolf, Jr., “Teacher Dropouts Still a Dilemma,"School and Society, April 18, 1964.

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  11. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,Racial Isolation in the Public Schools (Appendixes 1967), pp. 8–11, table A-2.

  12. Data obtained from a survey by the Office of Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education and Welfare and from individual school districts, as published in “Discriminatory Merit Systems: A Case Study of the Supervisory Examinations Administered by the New York Board of Examiners,” 6 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 374, 394–395, table V, September 1970. (Hereinafter “Discriminatory Merit Systems”).

  13. P.J. Graff, “Culturally Deprived Children: Opinions of Teachers on the Views of Riessman,”Exceptional Children, Vol. 31, No. 2 (October, 1964).

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  16. John E. Coons, William H. Clune III, and Stephen D. Sugarman,Private Wealth and Public Education (Cambridge, Mass., 1970), p. 272 (hereinafter “Private Wealth and Public Education”).

  17. Joel S. Berke, Stephen K. Bailey, Alan K. Campbell, Seymour Sacks,Federal Aid to Public Education: Who Benefits? (U.S. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Committee print, Government Printing Office, Washington, Apr. 1971), p. 14 (hereinafter the “Syracuse Study”).

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  18. Riles Report, p. 55.

  19. Syracuse Study, pp. 16–23 is the source of this and subsequent data in this section unless otherwise noted.

  20. Riles Report, p. 54.

  21. 5 Cal. 3d 584, 487 P. 2d 1241 (1971).

  22. 5 Cal. 3d at 589.

  23. Id.

  24. McInnis v. Shapiro, 293 F. Supp. 327 (N.D. Ill. 1968),aff'd. mem. sub nom., McInnis v. Ogilvie, 394 U.S. 322 (196 9); Burruss v. Wilkerson, 310 F. Supp. 572 (W.D. Va. 1969),aff'd mem., 397 U.S. 74 (1970).

  25. Rodriguez v. San Antonio Independent School Dist., 337 F. Supp. 280 (W.D. Tex. 1971),prob. jur. noted, 406 U.S. 966 (1972); Van Dusartz v. Hatfield, 334 F. Supp. 870 (D. Minn. 1971); Robinson v. Cahill, 118 N.J. Super. 223, 287 A.2d 187 (1972); Hollins v. Shoftstall, Civ. No. C-253652 (Super. Ct., Maricopa County, Ariz., Jan. 13, 1972).

  26. 118 N.J. Super. 223, 287 A.2d 187 (1972).

  27. Riles Report, p. 224.

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Tractenberg, P.L. The bleak plight of the urban teacher. Urban Rev 6, 51–56 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02194021

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