TRIDENT UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL

EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE

EDU506
14TH AMENDMENT Law and Ethics in
Education

REFUGIO GONZALES
MercyGate's Presentation
Objective:
1. Equity issues related to funding
2. Equity for Students with disabilities
3. Desegregation/ Affirmative Action
4. Gender/Race Discrimination
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EQUITY ISSUES: FUNDING

1. MercyGate is a private institution.

2. Private schools do not get funding from the federal government
directly under federal law.
3. Private School principals say federal funding is flawed.
 EQUITY ISSUES: FUNDING

Equal Protection under Fourteenth Amendment

Local Education Agency
Equity for Students with
Disabilities

- MercyGate Learning center provides a wonderful, loving

and diverse environment
- We also adhere the IDEA or the Individual with
Disabilities Education Act
Equity for Students with
Disabilities
More specifically, the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA) ensures that all eligible
children with disabilities have access to an education
as well as related services and supports, IDEA in
2004.
Gender and Race Discrimination
 Desegregation/Affirmative Action
The MercyGate Learning Center offers equal opportunity, without
regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap,
marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation or other protected
features under applicable law.
Gender and Race Discrimination

Brown vs. Board of

Education (1954)
Gender and Race Discrimination
Gender and Race Discrimination
 References
Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson School District v. Rowley, 458 U.S. 176
(1982). http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=45 8&invol=176.

Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483

(1954).http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=347 &invol=483.

Julie Grace, March 2018 Private Schools Principal say Federal Funding process is flawed.
Badger Institute

McLoyd and Steinberg 1998, Studying minority adolescents: Conceptual, methodological,

and theoretical issues. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403690/#R27’
 References
Strauss, V. (2015). The end of public school desegregation? The
Washington Post online 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answersheet/wp/2015/1
2/14/the-end- of-public-school- desegregation/.
Thought Leaders 2021, Equity in Education: What it is and Why it
Matters https://www.thinkingmaps.com/equity- education- matters/
Tyack and Cuban, 1995 Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of
Public School MA Harvard University Press