Prior to becoming a superintendent in Virginia, Anderson was assistant superintendent and
director of desegregation in the Rockwood School District in Missouri.
As
Director of Desegregation for Cambridge Public Schools, Dr. Kohn led the development of the first voluntarily formulated desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board of Education.
Not exact matches
Previous administrations have adjusted the pace
of enforcement based on their ideology and political will.32 For example, then - President Richard Nixon ordered the OCR to not issue clarification to guidance around school integration in hopes
of slowing
desegregation.33 Then - OCR
Director Leon Panetta was forced to resign after he contradicted the president and agreed to issue clarification.34 At any given time, the OCR must evaluate violations
of federal civil rights laws; it will now be up to Education Secretary DeVos to decide if violations are addressed or swept under the rug.
«Alarmingly, the percentage
of teachers
of color in BPS is basically what it was 24 years ago, when the final judgment in Boston's
desegregation case was signed,» said Matt Cregor, Education Project
Director at the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.