Sentences with phrase «desegregation cases in»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

In a tour de force that will likely be debated for decades to come, Souter focused on two cases: the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case of 1954, and the New York Times Co. v. United States Pentagon Papers case of 1971.

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

SE: In his seminal 1972 study titled Inequality, the Harvard - based sociologist and statistician Christopher Jencks wrote, «The case for or against desegregation should not be argued in terms of academic achievemenIn his seminal 1972 study titled Inequality, the Harvard - based sociologist and statistician Christopher Jencks wrote, «The case for or against desegregation should not be argued in terms of academic achievemenin terms of academic achievement.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, acting in a case that has been closely monitored across the nation, has upheld a federal district judge's order freezing $ 47.5 - million in Education Department funds pending the Reagan Administration's payment of desegregation aid to Chicago's schools.

And in another case that has gained widespread attention, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit last week refused to delay implementation of a voluntary student - desegregation plan involving public schools in St. Louis and its suburbs.

In 1974, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall captured this in a dissent in Milliken v. Bradley, a case that rolled back the desegregation efforts called for in Brown v. BoarIn 1974, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall captured this in a dissent in Milliken v. Bradley, a case that rolled back the desegregation efforts called for in Brown v. Boarin a dissent in Milliken v. Bradley, a case that rolled back the desegregation efforts called for in Brown v. Boarin Milliken v. Bradley, a case that rolled back the desegregation efforts called for in Brown v. Boarin Brown v. Board.

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.

But in recent weeks, settlements in cases involving Bakersfield, Calif., and the Ohio cities of Lima and Cincinnati have once again directed attention to these specialty schools as they were originally conceived — as tools for desegregation.

A federal appeals court in Boston has narrowly upheld a voluntary desegregation plan in the Lynn, Mass., school district in a case that is being closely followed by supporters and critics of race - conscious policies in K - 12 schooling.

Kansas City schools were already predominantly minority, and the Supreme Court had ruled in the Detroit case that surrounding school districts not found guilty of segregation could not be pulled into a case to provide more white students for desegregation.

Wolters constructs a largely chronological history since the first half century of the 1954 Brown decision, and his case studies of desegregation - in - action are drawn from contemporary news coverage and subsequent historical, legal, and political science scholarship.

«My intense desire to see my school excel comes not only from an unwavering belief that all students deserve an excellent education, but also the unique role Sousa played in the civil rights movement,» said Kamras referring to a challenge to segregation at Sousa that culminated in Bolling v. Sharpe, the 1954 Supreme Court case that paved the way for the desegregation of all DC public schools.

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

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.

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 casIn 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 casin the Los Angeles school - 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.

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.

Through her involvement as a research assistant for the CRP — a position she started in 2005 when she was still a doctoral student at HGSE — Garces has served as counsel of record in three amicus curiae briefs for the Supreme Court, including the recent Fisher v. University of Texas, and previously on a case involving the constitutionality of K — 12 voluntary desegregation policies.

The case studies of economic desegregation in the book's last chapter are dominated by a city in my state, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

A reissued decision in the Topeka, Kan., school - desegregation suit gives a more detailed picture of a federal appellate panel's deep division over the need for continued court supervision in the historic case.

Richard Kahlenberg makes the kind of very clean and uncompromising argument typical of believers in forced desegregation, whether based on racial or, in this case, economic status.

The use of crosstown busing to accomplish desegregation was unprecedented — and the case went right to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the highly controversial forced integration program in 1971.

After winning a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, civil rights advocates spent decades making and re-making the case for school desegregation.

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.

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.

WASHINGTON — After an eventful year that included important rulings on desegregation, graduation prayers, and sexual harassment in the schools, the U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term this week without any major education cases on its docket.

In lifting the desegregation order governing the public schools in Muscogee County, Ga., federal Judge J. Robert Elliott noted that he was the only person who had had a continuous connection with the case since it was filed in 196In lifting the desegregation order governing the public schools in Muscogee County, Ga., federal Judge J. Robert Elliott noted that he was the only person who had had a continuous connection with the case since it was filed in 196in Muscogee County, Ga., federal Judge J. Robert Elliott noted that he was the only person who had had a continuous connection with the case since it was filed in 196in 1964.

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...

The film looks at case studies in present day Little Rock, New York, and Los Angeles through a critical, historical lens, applying lessons learned during the period of desegregation after Brown v. Board and the experiences of the Little Rock Nine to the current state of education.

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.»

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.

Her dissertation research entitled, Community Perspectives on Black Parent Engagement in West Las Vegas, Before and After Desegregation: A Case Study examines community perspectives concerning Black parent engagement in West Las Vegas before and after school desegregation efforts in Clark CoDesegregation: A Case Study examines community perspectives concerning Black parent engagement in West Las Vegas before and after school desegregation efforts in Clark Codesegregation efforts in Clark County, Nevada.

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.

For the past nine months, Mr. Reville had served as metropolitan supervisor of desegregation in Little Rock, Ark., where he crafted new student - assignment plans for the three districts involved in the case.

Several Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court asked last week whether federal - court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation case.

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

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.»

The plaintiffs in Davis, along with others in NAACP school desegregation suits filed in Clarendon County, South Carolina; New Castle County, Delaware; and in Washington, D.C., would eventually be added under the umbrella of a larger desegregation case headlined by Topeka, Kansas» Brown v. Board of Education.6

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.

Authors: Dr. Ann E. Blankenship & Dr. Leslie LockeThis case study outlines the struggle for desegregation and the adoption of culturally responsive curricula in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) as it attempted to balance state politics and federal court oversight.

All three proposals were introduced as pieces of the state's negotiated settlement with plaintiffs in the Sheff v. O'Neill desegregation case for the 2014 - 15 year.

The Advocate: St. Martin School Board, in a challenge to desegregation case, votes to keep Catahoula Elementary open — case most likely now heads to trial http://bit.ly/1YhrqwL

But forcing diversity and desegregation in large districts through busing obviously generated minimal results or in some cases made matters worse.

«Alarmingly, the percentage of teachers of color in BPS is basically what it was 24 years ago, when the final judgment in Boston's desegregation case was signed,» said Matt Cregor, Education Project Director at the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.