Providing an Escape for Inner-City Children: Creating a Federal Remedy for Educational Ills of Poor Urban Schools

Authors

Amy J. Schmitz, University of Missouri School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 1994

Abstract

Children in impoverished, urban areas attend dangerous and decrepit schools, where they receive low quality education which fails to prepare them for meaningful participation in the community. Many states, however, provide no legislative or judicial remedy for these children, who desperately need vocational and educational skills to enable them to escape from the deprivation of their urban landscape. Meanwhile, federal officials speak

Recommended Citation

Amy J. Schmitz, Providing an Escape for Inner-City Children: Creating A Federal Remedy for Educational Ills of Poor Urban Schools, 78 Minn. L. Rev. 1639 (1994)