Sentences with phrase «because of the desegregation»

Points are given if a student's neighborhood school is overcrowded, if a student's sibling attends the school, if the student has been wait - listed at another magnet, and a student's race is also considered because of the desegregation mission of magnet schools.

Not exact matches

This is why I believe it's so important to study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:

The public schools in Prince Edward had been closed since 1959 because of «massive resistance» to desegregation, as Leslie «Skip» Griffin Jr., Ed.M.»

Because pairing and clustering mandates student involvement in desegregation and typically requires that students travel greater distances than under the redrawing of school catchment areas or other voluntary desegregation plans, the finding that this plan type produces the largest enrollment response is consistent with expectations.

The program, the court ruled, is «outside the scope of [the 1975 desegregation ruling] because it provides aid to students rather than to private schools.»

To comply with NCLB, the Richland Parish School Board notified parents that the Rayville Elementary School was failing, but on the advice of its legal counsel it prohibited Rayville's white students from transferring to certain other schools because of provisions «in the federal Richland Parish School desegregation case.»

True, desegregation in places like Boston was a failure because it mixed poor whites and poor blacks and spawned white flight by not giving parents any say in the matter of where their children went to school.

Even worse, because the move is «part of the Sheff desegregation settlement» it will make a mockery of the historic effort and the tens of million in public funds that have been spent to implement the Sheff settlement initiatives to date.

Darien Franco, 2011 graduate of Capital Preparatory Magnet School told me, «I think that the desegregation goal is a bit superficial because what I assume is the whole point is part of an effort to make sure everyone's getting a similar, quality education.

Over the past generation, federal courts have stopped monitoring desegregation plans that school districts had implemented because of earlier court orders; in 2007, the Supreme Court went so far as to overturn voluntary desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisville.

I am focusing on magnet schools in this essay because these schools are designed to have a specific racial balance in order to achieve the goal of desegregating Connecticut's public schools, yet demographics play out differently depending on the school, and some schools are struggling to maintain their required desegregation standards.

In Cleveland, a federal judge surprised the nation last May by deciding the district's longtime desegregation plan wasn't enough, because only one of its two high schools is racially integrated.

But what both sides fail to understand is that desegregation was pursued mostly as a last resort; blacks wouldn't achieve it immediately through the fiscal means (equal funding of schools) simply because of the opposition of Jim Crow segregationist - controlled school boards and legislatures.

Busing ended because of a combination of white protest, media that overemphasized resistance, and the lack of systematic collection to judge the impact of desegregation.

By Shawnta Barnes and David McGuire In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

Because the DOJ is not a party to all desegregation lawsuits, the list of lawsuits it maintains on its website, while useful, is not an exhaustive account of these cases in the United States.

In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

Because the LAUSD magnet schools were created with the objective of desegregation, it is this transitioning group of schools that are relevant for analyzing integration levels, if it is the case that LAUSD magnets are changing goals.

Because racial integration and desegregation are part of the guidelines, it appears that these are still goals of LAUSD magnet schools.

Because the court's conclusion led to the forbidding of even voluntary desegregation, magnet schools lost one of their mechanisms for creating racially diverse schools.