Sentences with phrase «busing for desegregation»

As a result of the Milliken decision and residential segregation, poor, minority students would stay in the cities, and the suburbs would be spared from busing for desegregation.

Reports of «reverse white flight» into the Los Angeles schools following the end of mandatory busing for desegregation may be premature and exaggerated, officials say.

President Nixon even addressed a national audience to criticize busing for desegregation, especially busing that crossed the line between cities and suburbs.

Residents started leaving the historically white, blue - collar Belmont neighborhood in the 1970s with Dayton's adoption of busing for desegregation.

Education Week, 8/2/16 «Bussing for desegregation sparked controversies across the country, and engendered few fans.

Not exact matches

Armor said he has helped design desegregation plans for schools but opposes mandatory measures such as the busing that was instituted in Boston in the 1970s.

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

The findings set the stage for furthering desegregation efforts — in particular, court - ordered busing of students in an attempt to increase the diversity of city schools.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

CHICAGO — Desegregation plans that provide for the busing of students between central - city and suburban schools are more effective in producing lasting integration than more limited types of plans, a new study released here concludes.

The superintendent of the Seattle public schools has proposed a new desegregation plan for the 44,000 - student district that would halve the number of pupils bused to promote integration.

Denver — The Denver school board's proposal to end eight years of mandatory busing, formulated in response to a judge's request for a «unitary, non-racial» enrollment policy, is not a desegregation plan, school officials admitted in federal district court last week.

In a 70 - page opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch released the Denver schools from 21 years of federal oversight and upheld a 1974 amendment to the state constitution prohibiting districts not under federal desegregation orders from busing children for racial balance.

William Bradford Reynolds, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said that the Justice Department's practice of seeking desegregation remedies other than the mandatory busing of students «is not evidence of any decision to countenance unlawful school segregation.

Washington — Amid strong signals that the Reagan Administration is hardening its opposition to busing for school desegregation, the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund has asked a federal judge for permission to intervene in the U.S. Justice Department's desegregation suit against the Charleston County, S.C., public schools.

During the 1970s and 1980s, for instance, the Nixon and Reagan administrations strongly opposed court - ordered busing — then a popular method of district integration — and weakened civil rights policies that would have promoted systemwide desegregation plans.43

Buses for school desegregation rarely crossed the urban - suburban boundary, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling in 1974, which meant that suburban students would not have to participate in court - ordered desegregation of city schools.

During the 1980s, when desegregation was in full effect — with forced busing in some cities and less dramatic strategies elsewhere — the black - white achievement gap on the National Assessment for Educational Progress shrunk faster than it ever has before or since.

Ending achievement and opportunity gaps requires implementing a variety of desegregation methods — busing, magnet schools, or merging school districts, for instance — to create a more just public education system that successfully educates all children.

Desegregation Bussing In 1954, the United States Supreme Court handed down its judgment for Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas.

Supporters of «desegregation bussing» argued that integration would provide minority students with equal access to equipment, facilities and resources thus providing an equal educational opportunity for all students in the area.