Sentences with word «desegregation»

The superintendent of the Little Rock schools planned last week to seek an end to court supervision of desegregation efforts in the Arkansas district.

According to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, there are 300 open school desegregation orders in place across the nation.

The district's 2016 Opportunity and Achievement Gap Policy calls for a diverse corps, and Boston's longstanding school desegregation order requires the district to maintain it.

New NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semi-apology for retweeting a story that cast Upper West Side parents opposed to a school desegregation plan as little more than wealthy white racists.

Initially a tool for desegregation efforts in the 1970s (i.e., by encouraging white parents to stay in urban districts), magnets have evolved to serve a wide variety of purposes and settings.

But the extent to which state constitutions provide support for desegregation by race is unclear.

Although further research is needed to better understand the reasons behind these closures, some of these closures coincided with the ending of court ordered desegregation programs.

What if there were a site that — for every U.S. public school district — tracked data on desegregation cases and linked it to trends in racial composition from 1968 - 2000?

Evidence on the achievement effects of desegregation by income is limited by both an absence of detailed information on family income (including indicators for severe poverty or high income) and the difficulty in separating the effects of students» own circumstances from the influences of peers.

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.

«The Oklahoma City case study suggests,» wrote Jellison, «that integration plans, with a great deal of effort, can work more effectively and that courts, rather than releasing districts from desegregation plans after only several years of operation, should ensure that everything possible is being done to promote an integration plan's success.»

In a 1978 Journal of Negro Education, Harold Gerard wrote of his disillusionment with desegregation of schools and his disagreements with the evidence social psychologists presented to the Supreme Court in 1954 saying (1983, p. 875):

The Justice Department and the Office for Civil Rights need to take enforcement actions under Title VI in some substantial school districts in order to revive federal policy sanctions for actions that either foster segregation or ignore responsibilities under desegregation plans.

In approving magnet - driven, voluntary desegregation programs in Buffalo and Milwaukee, the courts seemed more than willing to accept reasonable alternatives to the forced dissolution of geography - based school assignments.

Targeting additional resources to early childhood education, extended day, summer programs, prudent class - size reduction, or enhanced accountability structures is likely to have a higher return in these communities than racial desegregation efforts.

Nationally, though black - white residential dissimilarity had declined markedly, black - white school dissimilarity remains virtually unchanged as desegregation efforts are dissolved.

She grew up in Hartford and, as a child, was among the plaintiffs in the Sheff vs. O'Neill school desegregation lawsuit.

In connection with his HarvardX course, «Saving Schools,» Paul E. Peterson sits down with James Ryan, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to discuss the legacy of desegregation policy on American schools.

It's 2018 now, yet we're still dealing with court desegregation orders from the»50s and»60s; with charter school advocates who proudly accept that they're more segregated than their traditional school peers; and with a judicial nominee who wouldn't say if she agreed with 1954 Brown decision.

A 43 - year - old desegregation case involving the Hillsborough County, Fla., school system came to an end last week, as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to disturb a federal appeals court ruling that the district was no longer segregated.

Susan Eaton: The school desegregation movement improved educational opportunities for students of color, particularly for black students in the South.

A federal judge has ended an 18 - year - old desegregation suit against the Lowndes County, Ala., schools, after declaring further efforts at integration pointless since the overwhelming majority of students in the district now are black.

Many conservative parents actually grew up supporting desegregation so don't conclude that their apparently racist views are bad.

But neither do I ignore, as Kahlenberg does, the reality that whites have successfully resisted further desegregation since 1972.

In the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation ruling on May 17, 1954, the Court unanimously ruled that it was unconstitutional to separate students on the basis of race.

A California judge has said he will end two decades of state court supervision over desegregation efforts in the San Diego schools.

His courage of conviction in the early 2000s as he and fellow board members pursued unitary status for Aldine ISD following a 40 - year court - mandated desegregation order framed the next 10 years of his journey as a reform leader.

The Obama administration has revived a federal interest in desegregation issues.

At 16, Dorant Wells has experienced the complexities of what Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark school desegregation ruling, has wrought: He attended a middle school full of students of different colors and nationalities, but one where he sometimes felt there were lower expectations for black students.

The mayoral candidate is centering his campaign on his «Sustainable Syracuse» vision, which promotes desegregation of neighborhoods and employment, progressive tax reform, community policing and publicly - owned and modernized infrastructure and utilities.

Instead, the EEOS reflects an era when desegregation took voluntary forms.

Last semester students from Mehta's class presented a 22 - page wiki site focused on a wide range of hot topics in education policy including desegregation and METCO, teacher preparation, merit pay, and socioeconomic integration of schools.

For example, my students are writing an argumentative essay about desegregation in school, articulating why that was so important, to learn about rhetorical devices.

This includes registering voters for the Boston Election Commission in 1967, helping to establish the second Independent Living Center in the United States for persons with disabilities in the 1970's, establishing bi-racial councils in Boston Public Schools during desegregation, and supporting equal rights for the LGBTQ community.

In the wake of Boston's painful desegregation process in 1974, monies were made available to fund such projects in schools where racial tensions had not only simmered, but boiled over.

A national school - desegregation study by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is «so flawed that it can not be carried out in a way that will either be seen as professionally respectable or fair,» an advisor to the commission wrote last week in a letter of resignation.

MannaTi, the same arguments were NOT made against desegregation and women.

His sentiment reflects a national trend, as federal judges lift longstanding desegregation decrees with greater frequency.

The governor noted that Astorino has been questioned by federal authorities over a housing desegregation settlement in Westchester County.

Segregation Again: North Carolina's Transition from Leading Desegregation Then to Accepting Segregation Now.

In effect, they are using the logic of the education reform law to reopen one of the most divisive issues of the school desegregation era: whether largely white suburban districts should be required to accept black and Hispanic inner - city children.

Hawkins says that Rob Astorino's record as County Executive in the Westchester housing desegregation dispute with the federal government shows that he would be unqualified to resolve this problem statewide.

SR: Although any new efforts based on federal law are likely to be limited, it may be premature to pronounce school desegregation dead.

In other words, it is not desegregation per se that improves achievement, but rather the learning advantages some desegregated schools provide.»