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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, it's time for us to take a hard look at the separate and unequal conditions that still exist in our schools and our communities and rededicate ourselves to fulfilling the promise of equal opportunity for all.

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.