Serving Two Masters: Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation

Abstract

In the name of equity, we . . .seek dramatic improvement in the quality of the education available to our children.Any steps to achieve desegregation must be reviewed in light of the black community's interest in improved pupil performance as the primary characteristic of educational equity.TVe define educational equity as the absence of discriminatory pupil placement and improved performance for all children who have been the objects of discrimination.We think it neither necessary, nor proper to endure the dislocations of desegregation without reasonable assurances that our children will instructionally profit.Coalition of black community groups in Boston'