Richard Valencia’s primary goal in CHICANO STUDENTS AND THE COURTS is to correct the record of civil rights history that often fails to take account of Mexican American struggles for educational equity and to respond to the idea that Mexican American parents are indifferent to educational aspiration. His book is a highly detailed catalogue of all the relevant lawsuits about educational equality and Mexican American students, including not only school segregation, but also chapters on school financing, special education, bilingual education, school closures, the rights of undocumented students, higher educational financing, and high-stakes testing. Valencia discusses the cases any scholar of constitutional law knows well, such as SAN ANTONIO