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This brief examines how Florida annually provides equal educational opportunities to almost 300,000 non-native English speaking students who have been identified through surveys and testing as Limited English Proficient (LEP). In particular, it examines the ongoing efforts of the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) to meet both the letter and spirit of the 1990 Consent Decree between the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Florida Department of Education.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Emerging Intersections-Building Knowledge and Transforming Institutions / Hill Collins, Patricia -- Acknowledgments / Thornton Dill, Bonnie / Enid Zambrana, Ruth -- 1. Critical Thinking about Inequality: An Emerging Lens / Thornton Dill, Bonnie / Enid Zambrana, Ruth -- 2. Entering a Profession: Race, Gender, and Class in the Lives of Black Women Attorneys / Higginbotham, Elizabeth -- 3. The Intersection of Poverty Discourses: Race, Class, Culture, and Gender / Henderson, Debra / Tickamyer, Ann -- 4. Staggered Inequalities in Access to Higher Education by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity / Enid Zambrana, Ruth / MacDonald, Victoria-María -- 5. Developing Policy to Address the Lived Experiences of Working Mothers / Gatta, Mary -- 6. Exploring the Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Class on Maternity Leave Decisions: Implications for Public Policy / Manuel, Tiffany / Enid Zambrana, Ruth -- 7. Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in the Workforce, Education, and Training under Welfare Reform / Jones-Deweever, Avis / Thornton Dill, Bonnie / Schram, Sanford -- 8. Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Early School Leaving (Dropping Out) / Dance, L. Janelle -- 9. Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Political Participation and Civic Engagement / Frasure, Lorrie Ann / Williams, Linda Faye -- 10. Intersections, Identities, and Inequalities in Higher Education / Thornton Dill, Bonnie -- 11. Transforming the Campus Climate through Institutions, Collaboration, and Mentoring / Thornton Dill, Bonnie / Enid Zambrana, Ruth / McLaughlin, Amy -- 12. Conclusion: Future Directions in Knowledge Building and Sustaining Institutional Change / Enid Zambrana, Ruth / Thornton Dill, Bonnie -- Contributors -- Index