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A Reflection of Minimally Adequate Education In South Carolina More Than Fifty Years Later Frederick M. G. Evans, Ed. D. Dean, College of Graduate & Professional Studies Chair, Department of Educational Leadership South Carolina State University
Abstract
conclusions of personal thought or may
This academic professional reflection is
embrace the author’s points of view.
primarily focused on inadequate funding of
Keywords: minimum adequate education,
public education in selected school districts
equal education.
in the State of South Carolina, USA. It examines, in summary, several Supreme Court cases from a historical prospective and
Introduction The 1896 Plessey v. Ferguson (separate
its present day implications. The
but equal doctrine) Supreme Court case was
research based reflection focuses on the
overturned by the Brown v. The Board of
inequality of minimum adequate education
Education Supreme Court case in the 1954
and funding in public education. The
ruling
analysis of Supreme Court cases shall
unconstitutional.”
demonstrate how inadequate funding of
included the Briggs case and four other
public education impacts the lives of
cases, stemmed from a 1949 petition by the
innocent children.
The reader will find
parents of African American children
themselves questioning the educational and
attending schools in Clarendon County,
financial disparities within the arena of
South Carolina, seeking adequate funding.
public education and resting upon multiple
A few years later, Lyndon Johnson signed
“separate
but The
equal
was
Brown’s
case
the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The State of
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