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109 Va. L. Rev. Online 1 (2023)

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VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW

                  ONLINE


VOLUME   109                 APRIL 2023                          1-16


FOREWORD


WE  HAVE ONLY BEGUN TO FIGHT

  Kimberly  Jenkins Robinson *

                            INTRODUCTION
   This story begins with one parent who  took his demands  for equal
educational opportunity for his children all the way to the highest court of
our land. Demetrio Rodriguez served our nation in World War II and the
Korean  War.1 Yet, back in Texas, his children were in subpar and inferior
schools when  compared  with other schools in San Antonio. Following a
student walkout  in spring 1968 that protested the subpar and inferior
school facilities at Edgewood High School, Rodriguez  organized other
Mexican  American  parents in the Edgewood School District.2 He and his
fellow parents obtained legal counsel and challenged the school funding
disparities between Edgewood   and  nearby  Alamo  Heights  under the




  * Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Professor of Law, Education and
Public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Professor of
Education, School of Education and Human Development. Many thanks for Madeline Daniel
for excellent research assistance and to the exceptional staff at the University of Virginia Law
Library.
  1 Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. & Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, Introduction: The Enduring Legacy
of San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, in The Enduring Legacy of
Rodriguez: Creating New Pathways to Equal Educational Opportunity 1, 3 (Charles J.
Ogletree, Jr. & Kimberly Jenkins Robinson eds., 2015).
  2 Id.


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