@article{THESIS,
      recid = {14651},
      author = {Tu, Karen},
      title = {The Chicago Segregation Problem: Exploring the Limitations  of the 1980 Desegregation Consent Decree},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {B.A.},
      address = {2025-03},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Ordered by the federal government, the 1980 Chicago Public  School Desegregation Consent Decree was the most extensive  attempt to desegregate the public school system in the  history of Chicago. Yet, despite federal and local efforts,  the Chicago Public School system remains one of the most  segregated school systems in the country. This paper  examines how the Consent Decree failed to create real  changes in the segregated school system and how its  unintended consequences left irreversible impacts in the  school system. Drawing from court cases in the 1980s  relating to the Consent Decree, archival material such as  newspaper, monitoring commission reports assessing the  Decree’s implementation, and academic papers investigating  segregation in Chicago, I find that the conflicting  priorities and approaches of the federal government and the  school board regarding funding and the demographic  realities in Chicago greatly undermined the decree’s  effectiveness. By highlighting the decree’s failures and  long-term consequences, this paper contributes to the  broader discussion on the limitations of legal mandates in  addressing systemic racial segregation in education.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/14651},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.14651},
}