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• THE IMPACT OF ADMISSION POLICIES ON RACIAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DIVERSITY IN NEW ORLEANS' SELECTIVE ADMISSION SCHOOLS.

  Author:Robert A. Jr. GardaFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 5)

  Oct. 202210,080 words Article 1730LNew Orleans has four schools that determine admission based in part on student performance on academic tests: Lake Forest Charter School, Audubon Charter School, Benjamin Franklin High School and Lusher Charter School....

• ACADEMIC ADMISSIONS AT ELITE UNIVERSITIES AND AT SPECIALIZED PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS: DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN?

  Author:Maimon SchwarzschildFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 5)

  Oct. 20225,936 words Article 2110LINTRODUCTION Admissions policies at American universities and colleges, especially at the most prestigious ones, have had a checkered history over the past century and more. Many of the issues and controversies...

• REFLECTIONS ON SELECTIVITY.

  Author:Jonathan D. GlaterFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 5)

  Oct. 20227,734 words Article 2000LSelective public high schools, which do not and cannot enroll all the students who want to attend, face a daunting challenge. New York City's elite high schools illustrate the problem: Longstanding student selection...

• DISRUPTING THE RACIALIZED STATUS QUO IN EXAM SCHOOLS?: RACIAL EQUITY AND WHITE BACKLASH IN BOSTON PARENT COALITION FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE V. THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

  Authors:Raquel Muniz and Sergio BarragdnFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 5)

  Oct. 202222,306 words Article 2250LINTRODUCTION Educational equity (1) for racially minoritized students (2) has been a topic of debate since the 1954 landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. (3) Civil rights advocates have sought to advance...

• MORE THAN MERIT: REFRAMING THE DEBATE OVER EXAMINATION-BASED ADMISSIONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

  Author:Aaron SaigerFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 5)

  Oct. 202218,268 words Article 1610LSome selective public schools use entrance examinations, either alone or in conjunction with other academic measures, to admit students. This practice often generates student bodies with tiny numbers of Black and Latino...

• LIMITED SCOPE REPRESENTATION WHEN AN APPEARANCE IS MADE AND THE ETHICS OF LAWYERING.

  Author:Peter C. AngelicaFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 5)

  Oct. 202220,121 words Article 2180LINTRODUCTION Consider the following: you are a legal aid lawyer working in housing court. Faced with an overwhelming number of cases, (1) you are further burdened with the difficult task of triaging your workload. (2)...

• A CRITIQUE OF NEW YORK PAID FAMILY LEAVE.

  Author:Anna PetrocelliFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 5)

  Oct. 202210,870 words Article 1980LINTRODUCTION In 2013, Rachel Walsh, a thirty-two-year-old mother, was fired from her job for taking an extended leave of absence. The reason? Her baby had cancer. After her termination, Ms. Walsh's employer cancelled...

• REFLECTIONS ON PUBLIC EXAMINATION SCHOOLS: IS IT TIME TO MINIMIZE THE ROLE OF ENTRANCE TESTS IN ADMISSION TO THESE SCHOOLS?

  Author:Charles J. RussoFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 5)

  Oct. 20229,060 words Article 1950LPROLEGOMENA The popular 1980 movie "Fame," (1) which served as the basis for a subsequent television scries that aired from 1982-87 (2) and an eventual 2009 remake (3) of the original, was a fictional account of the...

• THE MYTH OF MERIT: THE FIGHT OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD AND THE NEW FRONT OF MASSIVE RESISTANCE.

  Author:Janel A. GeorgeFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 5)

  Oct. 202212,241 words Article 2020LINTRODUCTION Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020 and the seismic racial reckoning that followed, the Fairfax County School Board (FCSB) revised the admissions protocols of its local magnet school and the...