Sentences with phrase «desegregation lawsuit»

Foley Hoag's pro bono program has been a hallmark of the firm since it represented plaintiffs in the original Boston public schools desegregation lawsuit.

The Advocate: Federal judge is dismissing 47 - year - old desegregation lawsuit against St. Landry school system http://bit.ly/2bVz5A9

In a stinging rebuke, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's «disingenuous» attempt to use a decades - old desegregation lawsuit to curb or control Louisiana's voucher program for low - income students assigned to failing district schools.

An inter-district desegregation lawsuit in St. Louis appeared near resolution last week as a federal district judge agreed to postpone for seven days a hearing to determine the liability of eight suburban school districts for segregation in the city's schools.

Representatives in a long - running desegregation lawsuit involving Mississippi's higher education system have reached a $ 503 million settlement that is intended to address decades of deliberate racial segregation in state colleges and universities.

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

Hogan and Hartson, a Washington law firm that represents numerous education clients and has been a key player in several major desegregation lawsuits, will be a limited partner in her new venture.

Resurrecting long - ignored school desegregation lawsuits of the 1970s, the DOJ petitioned a federal district court to permanently enjoin Louisiana from awarding any vouchers to students in districts operating under federal desegregation orders until the state had received authorization from a federal court.

They then discuss how the desegregation lawsuits in the 1960s, demographic shifts starting in the 1950s, California's Proposition 13 property tax reduction measure, and the legalization of teacher unionization in 1975 delegitimized and hollowed out the old institution.

Because the DOJ is not a party to all desegregation lawsuits, the list of lawsuits it maintains on its website, while useful, is not an exhaustive account of these cases in the United States.

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Gorsuch has argued that liberals are too quick to file lawsuits as a way to force change, even though there's «no doubt that constitutional lawsuits have secured critical civil - rights victories,» including desegregation.

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

A new study, appearing in Education Next, shows that in the 34 districts under federal desegregation orders, including the 24 districts specifically named in the DOJ lawsuit, LSP transfers actually improve integration in both the public schools students leave and the private schools in which they enroll.

Nearly six years after Connecticut's landmark desegregation order, the group that initiated the lawsuit that led to the ruling is asking the courts to step in again — this time with a plan of its own that proposes how state leaders should carry out the mandate.

His lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of a district policy setting quotas for minority students that stems from the federal court's 1975 desegregation order.

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.

States and local school districts violated Brown, lawsuits or non-violent protests (which often provoked violent reprisals) eventually led to desegregation orders, and then great vigilance was required to ensure those orders were enforced.

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.

To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.

While their lawsuit would not have revoked vouchers that the state had already distributed, it would have blocked all future vouchers to students in districts under desegregation orders without federal permission.