Sentences with phrase «desegregation case»

A federal judge overseeing a 26 - year - old school desegregation case in Chicago has indicated that as long as some details are added, he is inclined to approve a proposed final settlement between the school system and the U.S. Department of Justice that could end court supervision of the district by July of next year.

The Justice Department may use the information in «federal school desegregation cases in Louisiana,» the judge ruled.

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.

In principle, it's based on the 14th Amendment and the 1954 school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.

Nevertheless, the judge said, the district and the minority plaintiffs in the long - running desegregation case had failed to show that the state took any actions to keep black and white children separate in the Yonkers schools.

Officials say the changes are needed to keep the district from using up what little is left of the $ 2 billion it received as part of a groundbreaking desegregation case.

Ginsburg looked to desegregation cases for ideas on how to build up case law, but convincing the court and the public of your position was different, she says.

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?

NCLB is in many respects the latest in a long line of efforts in the policy and legal arenas to promote equity and opportunity in the public schools, including desegregation cases, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the original ESEA, and school finance and adequacy cases in the states.

In a blunt, unsparing 16 - page opinion, Treu compared his ruling to the seminal federal desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, decided 60 years ago last month.

The number of black and Latino Hartford students attending integrated schools has likely dropped by more than 1,000 this year, as some Greater Hartford magnets struggle to attract enough white and Asian students to meet racial quotas under the state's landmark desegregation case.

Several major provisions of Missouri's new school funding law will take effect only if the parties to St. Louis» 26 - year - old desegregation case reach a settlement.

Eleven school districts in suburbs of Kansas City, Mo., have asked a federal appeals court to halt the St. Louis area's voluntary cross-district desegregation plan, contending that it could imperil their own desegregation case.

St. Louis's desegregation case dates from 1972, when Minnie Liddell, a black parent, filed suit against the St. Louis school board contending that her children were receiving an inferior education in a predominantly black city school.

The parties in the Kansas City, Mo., desegregation case announced the accord last month, just weeks after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling absolved the state from having to finance some of the school district's most expansive and expensive desegregation remedies.

The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.

U.S. District Judge George F. Gunn Jr., who had overseen the long - running St. Louis school desegregation case since 1991, died May 20 of cancer.

These findings are essentially unchanged when we restrict our analysis further to only the 24 districts in which the U.S. is listed as a party in the original desegregation cases.

But like an old, out - of - date suit collecting dust in the back of the closet, desegregation cases affecting hundreds of districts haven't been concluded.

When we queried the Department of Justice, we were told that it would be hard to determine the total number of active desegregation cases.

In Complex Justice I describe the long, agonizing, and costly desegregation case of Missouri v. Jenkins.

The reports also document the history of school desegregation in each state and across its geographic regions, including key desegregation cases and remedies, when applicable.

When one of the attorneys in the famous Sheff desegregation case said, «the state has an obligation to provide great, racially diverse schools,» Connecticut's Supreme Court agreed and ordered the legislature to take definitive action to reduce racial isolation in the state's urban public schools.

Across the country, there are 175 school districts, just like the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, with open desegregation cases in which the Department of Justice is a party.

The Supreme Court spelled out in the school desegregation case Cooper vs. Aaron that states, including «the officers or agents by whom (the state's) powers are exerted,» must comply with Supreme Court decisions even if they disagree with them.

A big court case came out of that area at the time, a big desegregation case and I developed a beat in courts and politics and then started covering more of the business aspects of law when I went to the Chicago Daily Law bulletin and then to American Lawyer Media.

In an article about Frankenberg's study that was published in The Birmingham News in December, U.W. Clemon, a retired U.S. district court judge who was involved in desegregation cases in the 1960s, said that as a result of fragmentation, the schools in Jefferson County are «resegregated» today, and not by accident.

She was a member of the plaintiffs» trial team in two of three trials of Alabama's higher education desegregation case, Knight v. State of Alabama.

The Denver school board decided last month to seek an end to the long - running desegregation case, Keyes v. School District No. 1.

Administrators say the closures are necessary to keep the district from plowing through what little is left of the $ 2 billion it received as part of a groundbreaking desegregation case.

The U.S. Department of Justice tried to use a 40 year old desegregation case to undermine a program that's designed to empower low - income families with children trapped in failing schools a pathway to a higher quality education.»

Last week: Linda Brown, the young student at the center of the historic school desegregation case of Brown v. Board of Education, died last week.

The plaintiffs in Connecticut's long - running Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation case have gone back to court to prod state officials to put more effort into meeting the terms of a settlement reached last year.

When you look at the desegregation cases here in Buffalo, [that was a] lawsuit.

In my last blog, written before taking a summer hiatus, I talked about Sheff v. O'Neill, a desegregation case in Connecticut, decided in 1996.

Willie was a court - appointed Master in the Boston School Desegregation Case in 1975 and was retained by the mayor to develop the Controlled Choice student assignment plan in 1989.

The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to fund the costs of collecting data from nine Georgia school districts whose long - standing school - desegregation cases the department would like to end.

The desegregation case was closed in 1980, but outraged civil - rights leaders have pledged to initiate another suit if the school board adopts what they term a «one - way busing» plan proposed by Mr. Ingwerson.

Numerous racial - desegregation cases, in which the goal of integration to remedy intentional discrimination is relatively clear, have lasted for decades.

In the same way that the old segregationist laws of the South forced blacks to the «back of the bus,» the California law amounts to «relegating minorities to the back of the courthouse under the subtle laws of the «New North,»» argued Laurence H. Tribe, a Harvard University constitutional scholar representing the minority - group plaintiffs in the Los Angeles school - desegregation case.

A brief obituary on U.S. District Judge George F. Gunn Jr. in the June 3, 1998, issue of Education Week stated that the attempt to mediate the St. Louis school desegregation case was unsuccessful.

Ruling in the Oklahoma City school desegregation case, a divided U.S. Supreme Court holds that districts that were once racially segregated by law may be freed from court - ordered desegregation plans if they have done their best to eradicate the vestiges of their discriminatory systems and have met court orders.

In its 2013 attempt to shut down the program, DOJ dusted off a dormant, decades - old desegregation case, Brumfield v. Dodd.

Ruling in a 25 - year - old school - desegregation case, the judge rejected the state's argument that the district could pay for the court mandates through cost - saving measures, including cutting...