At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the
segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.
A research professor of education at New York University, Ravitch recently published a book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools — which argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement, but of the
destruction of public schools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best Seller list.
For the 26 percent (and counting)
of public schools across the country that don't have the option of hiring or training teachers for AP classes, Course Access programs can ensure that their students have the opportunities they need to succeed.