Session V: Desegregating Schools using Funding Remedies
Panelists will discuss the various means of desegregating schools for racially equitable outcomes by providing more-than-equal funding remedies.
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James Ryan, University of Virginia Law School James Edward Ryan joined the University of Virginia School of Law faculty in 1998, after completing a two-year Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Law. He teaches constitutional law, land use law, law and education, local government law, torts, and seminars on such topics as legal scholarship, the Supreme Court, and environmental justice. His scholarship focuses primarily on law and educational opportunity, and he has authored or co-authored articles on school finance, school desegregation, school choice, school governance, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the political history of the Establishment Clause, which have appeared in the Yale, University of Michigan, Virginia, and New York University law reviews. |
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Heaster Wheeler, Detroit NAACP Heaster Wheeler’s activism in the political, civil rights and the social justice advocacy process goes back to junior high school when he was a member of the Black Student Union. Currently he serves as Executive Director of the Detroit Branch National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In the appointed position (since October 1999), he has tackled major issues including: juvenile justice, driving while black, employment discrimination, the takeover of Detroit Public Schools and voting rights voter intimidation issues. |
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Daria Roithmayr, University of Illinois College of Law Professor Roithmayr is a scholar of national and international renown in the area of critical race theory. She is an associate professor at the University of Illinois College of Law. During the 2003-2004 academic year, Professor Roithmayr was a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and she will be teaching at the University of Minnesota in fall 2005. She is currently at work on a book, “Locked In Inequality,” which argues that racial inequality can become locked into institutions in much the same way that market monopolies can become locked into the market, even in the absence of continuing anticompetitive behavior. |
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