Opinions Regarding the Condition of Public Education Is Split Down Racial Lines: "This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. This legal decision declared racially segregated schools unconstitutional. The survey shows that fifty years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, only a slim majority believe that equal opportunity exists in U.S. public education today. In addition, the groups who are supposed to have most benefited from the ruling -- African Americans and Hispanics -- are the least likely to feel that the playing field is even."