{"id":28543,"date":"2019-07-22T12:40:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=28543"},"modified":"2019-07-25T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:36:22","slug":"marquette-lawyer-magazine-looks-at-the-milwaukee-public-schools-and-seemingly-timeless-societal-problems-especially-segregation-post-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2019\/07\/marquette-lawyer-magazine-looks-at-the-milwaukee-public-schools-and-seemingly-timeless-societal-problems-especially-segregation-post-2-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquette Lawyer Magazine Looks at the Milwaukee Public Schools\u2014and Seemingly Timeless Societal Problems, Especially Segregation (Post 2 of 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JudgeA previous blog post discussed a pair of stories<\/a> in the Summer 2019 Marquette Lawyer<\/em> magazine and concluded by quoting one of them: specifically, an observation by Professor David Strauss of the University of Chicago, based on the Boden Lecture at Marquette Law School by Duke\u2019s Professor Ernest Young, that \u201cin the end, there is only so much the law can do to save a society from its own moral failings.\u201d This post takes up a second pair of stories in the magazine, from which one might draw the same conclusion.<\/p>\n

While it remains a fact<\/em> about the large majority of schools in the Milwaukee area now, segregation of Milwaukee school students by race was the subject of great energy<\/em>\u2014attention, advocacy, and controversy\u2014in the 1960s and 1970s. Two pieces in this summer\u2019s Marquette Lawyer<\/em> focus on the Milwaukee education scene of that earlier era.<\/p>\n

In one, Alan Borsuk, the Law School\u2019s senior fellow in law and public policy, writes about the decision issued in January 1976, by U.S. District Judge John W. Reynolds, which ordered that the Milwaukee Public Schools be desegregated. \u201cA Simple Order, a Complex Legacy\u201d touches upon the legal history of school desegregation cases, Reynolds\u2019 1976 ruling itself, and the legacy of that Milwaukee ruling. To borrow a phrase from Professor Young\u2019s Boden Lecture, there is scarcely \u201can optimistic, onward-and-upward feel\u201d to the account.<\/p>\n

In the second piece, Mike Gousha, the Law School\u2019s distinguished fellow in law and public policy, approaches the same general era, primarily through the eyes of his father, Dr. Richard P. Gousha, who was superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools from 1967 to 1974. Richard Gousha, who lives now in California, saved the texts of speeches he gave as superintendent, and Mike Gousha uses excerpts from his father\u2019s remarks to paint a rich and evocative picture of MPS in the years leading up to the 1976 federal court decision. As the title suggests, the matters in \u201cA Father\u2019s Timeless Words from a Turbulent Time\u201d are of more than historical interest. Mike Gousha explains, \u201cI was struck by how issues facing MPS in the late 1960s and early 1970s still confront the district today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The continuing importance of the topics and themes of these two articles has been reflected in the national <\/em>public conversation even since their publication. In particular, consider the recent debate between Democratic presidential candidates, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris, engaging with one another about the appropriate role of busing in desegregating public schools. \u201cWe don\u2019t want another Boston\u201d may have been a mantra of Milwaukee\u2019s leaders in 1976, as Borsuk relates in reference to the busing-related controversy and even violence in that East Coast city of that general era. Yet he also notes of Milwaukee that, for part of the legacy of Reynolds\u2019s ruling, \u201cbusing became so widespread that some have wondered whether there is another city in the country where the presumption is weaker that children will attend their neighborhood school.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pieces are well worth reading: The article on the Reynolds\u2019 decision may be read by clicking here<\/a>, and the Gousha article may be read by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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