“But into the 1980s, Texas continued its notorious practice of tolerating small school districts, thus allowing affluent sections of a city to provide high qual

“But into the 1980s, Texas continued its notorious practice of tolerating small school districts, thus allowing affluent sections of a city to provide high quality schools for their children while poor whites, blacks, and Chicanos were obliged to tax themselves at a higher rate to provide even a minimal education. A dark leaf in modern Texas history was the state’s effort (until forbidden by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1982) to deny public school education to the children of illegal aliens— the very group Texas employers had been coaxing across the border for cheap labor for generations.” -The Book of America by Hagstrom and Peirce (1983), Page 132