Public Education

This chart illustrates the distribution of college enrollment and high school completion among 18 and 19 year olds from the years 1967 to 2022. 

California’s Proposition 187 aimed to deny undocumented immigrants access to public education, non-emergency health care, and other social services. It also sought to create a state-run system to verify immigration status. Backed by Governor Pete Wilson and fueled by concerns over immigration and…

Mendez v. Westminster was a landmark decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. It held that the segregation of Mexican American students into separate Mexican schools in Orange County, California, was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth…