Those programs include early - childhood programs for the state's 16 largest and neediest cities, school library improvements, 16 urban charter schools, and additional funding for magnet schools to attract students from surrounding school districts. (educationworld.com)
Kansas City schools were already predominantly minority, and the Supreme Court had ruled in the Detroit case that surrounding school districts not found guilty of segregation could not be pulled into a case to provide more white students for desegregation. (educationnext.org)
This problem is magnified in Dallas (and other surrounding school districts in North Texas), where in each of the past three years, Dallas Independent School District has lost nearly 20 percent of its teacher workforce, requiring the district to hire on average about 2,000 new teachers every year. (dallasteacherresidency.org)