Sentences with phrase «desegregation efforts»

The decades since the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, have seen significant judicial oversight of school desegregation efforts in states across the country.

She is the author of The Children In Room E4: American Education on Trial, which chronicles a landmark civil rights case and life in a classroom and neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview study of the adult lives of African Americans who had participated in a voluntary school desegregation effort in suburban Boston.

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

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.

The authors conclude, «The LSP is unlikely to have harmed desegregation efforts in Louisiana.

Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has invited President Obama to tour schools with him when the president visits the state at the end of the week, the latest in Jindal's efforts to protest the Department of Justice's attempts to intervene in the state voucher program, which DOJ says interfere with desegregation efforts in some Louisiana districts.

But it seems clear that passage of the measure, which appears on the state's Nov. 5 ballot as Proposition 209, would raise questions about a host of programs that public K - 12 schools and colleges offer — from voluntary desegregation efforts to certain tutoring and outreach programs.

Steven Rivkin, professor of economics at Amherst College, questions whether desegregation efforts fulfilled their promise and points out complexities to the issue that researchers have barely begun to examine.

Parents and Advocates Push Back on Attempt to Roll Back Desegregation Efforts in Hartford Public Schools

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

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

But since 1988, when education policy shifted away from desegregation efforts, the reading test score gap has grown — to 26 points in 2012 — with segregated schooling increasing in every region of the country.

But the suit cites examples in which it says desegregation efforts have been harmed by Louisiana's program.

School desegregation efforts gave way to massive local resistance to integration.

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.

Importantly, even if these or other studies succeed in isolating the causal effects of peer SES, they do not provide direct evidence on the effects of specific income desegregation efforts.

Steven Rivkin: Desegregation efforts did improve the racial balance of public schools.

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 report also indicates that controlled choice — a type of voluntary desegregation that allows parents some choice about which schools their children will attend — and other desegregation efforts benefit minority students.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education found legally segregated schools to be unconstitutional, but it was not until the legislative and executive branches put the full strength of the federal government behind desegregation efforts, by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that serious progress was made in the South.

Today, questions about the effects of changes in housing patterns and recent Supreme Court decisions that weaken desegregation efforts remain central to discussions of educational opportunity and racial achievement gaps.

Black white segregation among districts in 2012 is roughly 5 percent lower than it was in 1968, prior to the onset of the most far - reaching desegregation efforts.

Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous desegregation efforts in southern states.

It convinced Congress to abolish the Emergency School Aid Act program, enacted in 1972 to support school - system desegregation efforts, and fold it into the education block - grant bill enacted in 1981, the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act.

Key Findings Overall, in many districts where court - ordered mandate halted desegregation efforts in the past decade, there has been a major increase in segregation.

Denver school officials said they planned to file a motion late last week seeking to end federal court supervision of the district's 22 - year old desegregation effort.

The DOJ's brief cites two public schools where it claims desegregation efforts were harmed by the LSP.

The school board voted last month to buy out Superintendent Henry Williams» contract after a report by a court - appointed committee that monitors desegregation efforts concluded that the district lacked leadership.

In August, the DOJ filed a motion in a decades - old federal desegregation lawsuit to enjoin the LSP from issuing any further vouchers without federal approval, arguing that the LSP negatively impacts desegregation efforts.

The program has recently come under fire from the U.S. Department of Justice, which has filed a lawsuit alleging the program is impeding federal school - desegregation efforts initiated in the 1970s.

The DOJ claimed the voucher program imperiled desegregation efforts but two studies showed that the vouchers actually improved racial integration.

From the Hartford Courant: Frustrated plaintiffs in the Sheff v. O'Neill lawsuit accepted a new agreement Friday to continue desegregation efforts in Hartford, asking a judge to approve a one - year extension that does little more than maintain the status quo during the state's fiscal troubles.

After years of failed desegregation efforts, black and Puerto Rican groups were demanding control of their children's education.

The principal of a Manhattan public school where white parents spoke out against desegregation efforts has requested more police at her campus.

Although Duncan painted desegregation efforts as largely a flop, there were both successes and failures at all levels of education — preschool, K - 12 and higher education, he said.

For the past year, the majority on the board of the 167 - school district have been pushing to return to zoned schooling, essentially eliminating the array of magnet schools and other options created as part of a three decade - long desegregation effort.

The lunch counter from the Greensboro, N.C., sit - ins during the 1960s desegregation efforts was my favorite exhibit.

The Obama administration has said that Louisiana's school voucher program, which allows children to transfer out of failing public schools into private schools on the public's dime, has hurt desegregation efforts in Louisiana.

Clearly, decades of decisions by conservative courts provided legal cover for communities to abandon desegregation efforts that were put in place following Brown v. Board of Education.

The petition cites examples in which desegregation efforts may have been harmed.

Based on this evidence, we conclude that the LSP is unlikely to have harmed desegregation efforts in Louisiana.

The Justice Department had sued to block Louisiana's voucher program on the grounds that it interfered with desegregation efforts.

As the potential for desegregation efforts is determined by the distribution of students among districts, I report the index for districts as well as for schools.

In an Education Next forum published in 2010, two experts on desegregation considered whether desegregation efforts have fulfilled their promise and what role desegregation should play today.

Nothing in the extensive history of desegregation efforts over the past 50 years gives the districts, or this Court, any reason to believe that another method is possible to accomplish these goals.