Sentences with phrase «desegregation decrees»

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

Even where, as in Charlotte, they and their liberal allies control the school board, they have pushed the counterintuitive argument that courts should force the boards to continue busing on the grounds that they have not complied with the original desegregation decrees and need continued court supervision.

(«San Francisco Desegregation Decree To End,» Feb. 24, 1999.)

It wrote that there was «overwhelming evidence of the Board's good faith compliance with the desegregation Decree and its underlying purposes.»

Not exact matches

Also at 12:45 p.m., Coalition of Westchester organizations hold a press conference and rally calling on the court to enforce a 2009 desegregation order ahead of a hearing this afternoon on remedies to hold the county accountable for allegedly breaching its 2009 Consent Decree with HUD, steps of U.S. District Court, 500 Pearl St., Manhattan.

After a long - running legal suit, Austin's schools had been decreed «unitary» in 1986, and as was typical after such a release from desegregation requirements, a modest degree of integration had unraveled.

Lawyers for the state of Ohio last month asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to overturn a federal district court's ruling that expanded the state's responsibility to fund school desegregation in Lorain County under the terms of a consent decree.

As the days of desegregation by decree draw to a close, many schools and communities again find themselves asking how to preserve the perceived gains made under court - ordered plans — or to undo the perceived harm they inflicted.

Most recently, he was a key part of the trial team that, on behalf of the Chicago Board of Education, vacated a 29 - year - old desegregation consent decree.