Sentences with phrase «as segregation academies»

While we're at it, maybe we should close any private schools, whatever their racial composition today, that were initially established as segregation academies when public schools began to integrate.

After all, even as segregation academies were operating in the South, staffers in Lyndon Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity were suggesting that voluntary vouchers would be a better tool than forced busing to pursue desegregation.

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BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «It is likely that many oversubscribed VC schools, after converting to Academies, will decide to add religious admissions requirements, and as a result school segregation is only going to get worse.

By the end of the 1960s, more than 200 private segregation academies had opened in the South, relying on vouchers to cover significant percentages of student tuition, as well as other state resources to operate.

But as she clearly lays out, these new «gifted academies» move Connecticut away from the true mission of public education and back to the ugly era of school segregation.