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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaadl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points * The Hispanic community's battle for educational freedom started well before the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 through a series of court cases that helped lay the foundation of our modern public school choice movement. * Beginning in the 1990s, charter schools proved to be a popular public choice model for Hispanic families. Today, charter schools are approximately 30 percent Hispanic and educate a larger percentage of Hispanic students than traditional public schools. * Recent data, including a 2015 study, indicate that Hispanic students are making gains in charter schools. With the Hispanic student population continuing to grow-and because 84 percent of Hispanic parents support allowing parents to choose what public school they send their child to-charter schools will likely remain a popular option for Hispanic parents in the future. The atmosphere surrounding American education in 2o16, the year Brown v. Board of Education turns 6z, highlights our nation's legal victory over state- sponsored school segregation. Without question, the Brown decision draws our attention time and time again to the civil rights era's moral victory of right over might. Today, opportunity for all American students has never been greater. We first and foremost have the courageous black families involved with Brown to thank for that. But the Hispanic community also deserves recognition for paving the way to Brown. Their contribution laid the early foundation of our modern public school choice movement. Yet today's policy conversations often overlook just how significant that foundation was in providing all American children true educational freedom. The Hispanic community's battle for educational freedom started well before the Brown decision of 1954. As early as January 1931, Mexican parents in Lemon Grove, California, refused to let 75 of their children be segregated from white students and placed in a wooden school building called La Caballeriza-the barn. For weeks, parents and students boycotted the school, hoping the school board would reverse its decision. The board refused to budge, pushing the parents to file a lawsuit. On March 11, 1931, San Diego Superior Court Judge Claude Chambers ruled in favor of the Mexican families, stating: I understand that you can separate a few children; to improve their education they need special instruction. But to separate all the Mexicans in one group can only be done by infringing the laws of the state of California. The school board reinstated the students. This was an important step to ending race-based segregation in American schools. AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE

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