The Equity Divide Pre-Abbott and the Early Days of the Fight for Equity

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Presenters: David Sciarra, Esq., Executive Director, Education Law Center; Paul Tractenberg, Esq., Founder of the Education Law Center and Professor Emeritus, Rutgers Law School

In this episode, former Rutgers Law School Professor and founder of the Education Law Center, Paul Tractenberg, who was truly a pioneer in New Jersey and nationally.  Professor Tractenberg discusses the incredible disparities in educational quality that existed and were widely accepted a half century ago, before New Jersey’s groundbreaking Abbott v Burke litigation, and the steps taken in the 1970s and 80s that set the stage for the many legal successes that followed.