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Equitable defenses are usually affirmative defenses asking the court to excuse an act because the party bringing the cause of action has acted in some inequitable way. Traditionally equitable defenses were only available at the Court of Equity and not available at common law.
Tape v. Hurley, 66 Cal. 473, (1885) was a landmark court case in the California Supreme Court in which the Court found the exclusion of a Chinese American student from public school based on her ancestry unlawful. The case effectively ruled that minority children were entitled to attend public school in California.
The National Equity Project began in 1991 as a regional office of the Coalition for Essential Schools, then based at Brown University.In 1995, it was founded as an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization called the Bay Area Coalition for Essential Schools, or BayCES.
Back in 2017, the families of children in some of California's worst-performing public schools sued the state for failing to teach low-income black and Hispanic children how to read.
Decided 1874; Citation(s) Ward v. Flood, 48 Cal 49–52 (1874).: Holding; The law providing for the education of children of African descent in separate schools at the public expense is not in conflict with the Constitution of California, nor in conflict with the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
The Unruh Civil Rights Act (colloquially the "Unruh Act") is an expansive 1959 California law that prohibits any business in California from engaging in unlawful discrimination against all persons (consumers) within California's jurisdiction, where the unlawful discrimination is in part based on a person's sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, medical ...
Sonja Shaw, president of Chino Valley Unified School District, at a news conference at the state Capitol on Aug. 14 to oppose a series of education bills in the Legislature that she says would ...
This is a list of school districts in California.. California school districts are of several varieties, usually a Unified district, which includes all of the Elementary and High Schools in the same geographic area; Elementary school districts, which includes K–6 or K–8 schools only, which may have several elementary districts within one high school district's geographic area; and High ...