Sentences with phrase «school desegregation reduced»

School desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the South).

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In 1975, Coleman published a follow - up study that concluded that the main impediment to school desegregation was the growing residential segregation «between central city and suburbs,» and that the «current means by which schools are being desegregated are intensifying that problem, rather than reducing it.»

Jonathan Guryan in 2002 used the desegregation plan data assembled by Welch and Light to study the change in high - school dropout rates between 1970 and 1980, and found that the implementation of desegregation during the 1970s reduced the high - school dropout rate during that period.

A federal judge in Arkansas last week ordered the Little Rock School District to reduce the number of teachers it plans to reassign in the upcoming school year as part of a comprehensive school - desegregation prSchool District to reduce the number of teachers it plans to reassign in the upcoming school year as part of a comprehensive school - desegregation prschool year as part of a comprehensive school - desegregation prschool - desegregation program.

Further research has shown that the desegregation of schools can help bring adult communities together by reducing segregated housing.

[15] This minimum percentage is reduced from 35 percent to 25 percent for schools participating in certain desegregation plans.

Whereas, the Hawkins / Jones platform of a Green New Deal calls for equitable funding for all of our schools, reduced class sizes across the state, support for programs that promote desegregation in our schools, an end to zero - tolerance discipline policies driving the school - to - prison pipeline, and allowing schools to develop methods of assessment organic to the learning process, and

When one of the attorneys in the famous Sheff desegregation case said, «the state has an obligation to provide great, racially diverse schools,» Connecticut's Supreme Court agreed and ordered the legislature to take definitive action to reduce racial isolation in the state's urban public schools.