Sentences with phrase «desegregation of schools»

Desegregation of schools in the US caused a drop in self - esteem in black children because they compared themselves with their white classmates rather than with one another.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

Hawkins called for desegregation of the school district and consolidation with neighboring suburban school districts.

Thus, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 encouraged desegregation of schools as a means of equalizing opportunity.

Racial or socio - economic desegregation of schools has proven difficult since the 1970s.

In a 1978 Journal of Negro Education, Harold Gerard wrote of his disillusionment with desegregation of schools and his disagreements with the evidence social psychologists presented to the Supreme Court in 1954 saying (1983, p. 875):

Desegregation of schools by race and class is the only proven way to close the race and class achievement gaps as measured by standardized tests.

Hawkins» platform includes tax reform that would create a city income tax, anti-poverty initiatives, state - supported worker co-ops for poor and working - class people, public ownership of utilities and desegregation of schools and housing.

The argument plays to Alabama's primal fear of federal control, a fear born of years of resentment over U.S. courts» ordering the desegregation of schools and the creation of black - majority legislative districts.

In the highly successful movie «The Great Debaters,» starring Denzel Washington, a student was defending her argument for the desegregation of schools.

After the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, called for the desegregation of schools in the United States, districts worked to begin integration, but many areas, like Little Rock, Arkansas, remained resistant.

Further research has shown that the desegregation of schools can help bring adult communities together by reducing segregated housing.

The government argues that allowing students to leave their public schools for vouchered private schools threatens to disrupt the desegregation of school systems.

From the desegregation of schools as a civil rights issue in the 1950s to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which provided new resources and programs to better educate low - income children in the 1960s, we have struggled to right history's wrongs.

Vouchers originated in Southern states as a way of getting around the Brown vs. Board of education series of Supreme Court decisions requiring the desegregation of schools, as CMD has detailed.

The local NAACP chapter put pressure on the Muscogee County School District to speed up the desegregation of schools.