Sentences with phrase «across district lines»

Think about kids attending schools across district lines, charter schools, or virtual schools that may operate statewide or in multiple states.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has urged black parents to follow the example of the three Hartford, Conn., parents who have been charged with «stealing an education» because they enrolled their children in school across district lines in suburban Bloomfield.

Furthermore, I discuss one past solution, busing across district lines, that I argue has failed to rectify segregation in schools.

While the end of court - ordered desegregation measures has caused a modest increase in segregation within public school districts, a large majority of racial segregation occurs across district lines.

The justices ruled, 5 - 4, that a metropolitan area could not desegregate a city's largely black school district by consolidating it with largely white suburban districts and transporting students between them, unless there was proof that suburbs had deliberately devised separate schools for blacks and for whites or were otherwise liable for segregation across district lines.

White parents who could not afford public schools, but wanted their children to socialize only with others of their race and caste, could simply move across the district line to avoid desegregation.

At the same time, schools remain heavily segregated - particularly across district lines - with most minority children heavily concentrated in certain urban districts.

The Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School (WPCCS) opened its virtual doors in the fall of 2000 as Pennsylvania's second cybercharter and the first to offer its services across district lines.

That reform would mandate the most ambitious kind of integration: with students of different classes and races, from cities and adjacent suburbs, transported across district lines to go to school together.

Restricting charters from recruiting students from across district lines has effectively eliminated the possibility of communities creating charters in most other parts of the state.

Mississippi's original law allowed charter schools to open only in D or F - rated districts; the law was later amended to allow students from nearby C, D, or F - rated districts to travel across district lines to attend a charter school.

But not a single charter is in the mostly white northwest neighborhoods, or across the district lines in those Maryland and Virginia suburbs where whites and Asian Americans are in the majority.

Districts with very high or low FRPL rates can do little to remedy segregation within their district boundaries (although they can often do a lot by working with neighboring districts to allow students to attend schools across district lines)

Much of this movement occurred across district lines.

In the 1974 Milliken v. Bradley decision, the Supreme Court ruled that courts generally could not require busing across district lines to achieve racial balance; but the coming months may see more calls from liberals for moving kids across district lines to fulfill the promise of the federal law.

Choice is managed to support racial / ethnic and economic integration, both within and across district lines.

Allows students to «open enroll» across district lines to any school who is currently under capacity.

In 1996, Connecticut's highest court ordered the legislature to find a way to integrate Hartford's schools across district lines, according to an Abell Foundation report suggesting such a model could be applied to Baltimore.