Sentences with phrase «desegregation of schools as»

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I'm only just starting this one, but I can already see that it's more social - history - driven than Free for All, including some fascinating insights on how such seemingly far - flung issues as race, desegregation and gender have played into the development of the current school lunch program.

Although there were some small - scale random - assignment experiments of the effects of desegregation on test scores, most of what we know today concerns the relationship between a school outcome such as achievement on the one hand, and racial composition on the other.

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.

In the focus groups we ran, people often discussed the downsides of desegregation — the biggest of which is lack of belongingness, especially for students of color who, in many desegregated schools, do not get welcomed in the same way, or get access to the same experience as white students.

His articles and essays address such topics as school desegregation, school finance, school choice, standards and testing, pre-K, and the intersection of special education and neuroscience.

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.

Louisville, Ky — Threats of a new legal battle over desegregation have erupted here as a result of Superintendent of Schools Donald W. Ingwerson's recently proposed revisions in the busing plan that Jefferson County schools have used sincSchools Donald W. Ingwerson's recently proposed revisions in the busing plan that Jefferson County schools have used sincschools have used since 1975.

The public schools in Prince Edward had been closed since 1959 because of «massive resistance» to desegregation, as Leslie «Skip» Griffin Jr., Ed.M.»

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.

White flight almost certainly altered the effects of desegregation policies in many cities, especially in places such as the Northeast, where school districts within metropolitan areas tend to be small and numerous.

It was notorious for many reasons: First, the court ordered enormous state and city expenditures, intending to attract white schoolchildren from the suburbs to the Kansas City schools so as to provide the minimum number of white children that proponents of desegregation considered necessary for a desegregated or «unitary» school.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

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If parents no longer thought of non-White, majority Free Lunch schools as synonymous with low test scores, they would be more open to desegregation.

Trained as a historian under Harvard scholar Bernard Bailyn, Tyack believed that the careful sifting of past education policies could inform policymakers» debates on reforms such as desegregation, vouchers, charter schools, and leadership.

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.

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.

It takes a great deal of personal time to become informed regarding such issues as racial desegregation, charter schools, curriculum content, testing, graduation standards, geographic placement of a new school, and the configuration of attendance boundaries.

Mary Washington, head of Local 420, responded that Hubbard had run away from the St. Louis schools when as a student he used the voluntary desegregation program to transfer to the Mehlville school district.

Magnet schools were originally funded as tools of desegregation under the Emergency School Assistance Act from 1972 to 1981.

Though the program falls under the law's choice provisions, the federal government still considers magnets an important aspect of desegregation policy, defining a magnet school as one that «offers a special curriculum capable of attracting substantial numbers of students of different racial backgrounds.»

He characterizes the last 50 years as a crucial period of transition for these schools, which before desegregation were the only higher education option for the vast majority of African Americans.

A federal judge in Arkansas last week ordered the Little Rock School District to reduce the number of teachers it plans to reassign in the upcoming school year as part of a comprehensive school - desegregation prSchool District to reduce the number of teachers it plans to reassign in the upcoming school year as part of a comprehensive school - desegregation prschool year as part of a comprehensive school - desegregation prschool - desegregation program.

In 1981 they were folded into the Chapter 2 block - grant program, but explicit federal support for magnet schools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Securischools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic SecuriSchools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Security Act.

Indiana officials have agreed to provide the Fort Wayne schools with an extra $ 12.9 million over six years to fund educational improvements as part of a desegregation settlement.

Thus, although proponents of magnet schools have not disavowed the desegregation goal that is the program's roots, they currently place almost equal emphasis on magnets as instruments of school choice.

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.

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.

A national school - desegregation study by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is «so flawed that it can not be carried out in a way that will either be seen as professionally respectable or fair,» an advisor to the commission wrote last week in a letter of resignation.

For example, Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., created magnet schools as part of its school desegregation efforts in the late 1970s.

District schools also could be chosen when families participate in open enrollment or inter-district choice programs, which allow students in one school district to attend schools in another, often as part of a voluntary desegregation strategy.

The teenagers wrote opinion pieces on whether all students should be encouraged to attend college, the value of alternative teacher preparation programs such as Teach For America, the importance of desegregation, or the best approach to school discipline.

Long - term studies of black adults who as children were subject to court - ordered desegregation programs, have found significant gains from attending integrated schools, including higher earnings and better health.

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.

Today, this tactic continues even as school desegregation has been downgraded as a priority by the Congress and federal courts, but the politics of Republican support for private schools has gained new elements.

«I can't think of any administration that was in love with school desegregation efforts,» said Columbia Law School Professor Ted Shaw, who worked as a trial attorney at the Justice Department during the Carter and Reagan administraschool desegregation efforts,» said Columbia Law School Professor Ted Shaw, who worked as a trial attorney at the Justice Department during the Carter and Reagan administraSchool Professor Ted Shaw, who worked as a trial attorney at the Justice Department during the Carter and Reagan administrations.

As Director of Desegregation for Cambridge Public Schools, Dr. Kohn led the development of the first voluntarily formulated desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board Desegregation for Cambridge Public Schools, Dr. Kohn led the development of the first voluntarily formulated desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board of Education.

The Century Foundation Report, Louisville, Kentucky: A Reflection on School Integration, recognized that the city's «adoption of stronger socioeconomic measures, as well as its regional approach to desegregation, careful timing, and continued emphasis on school quality represent critical lessons that could be adopted by other regions and school districts willing to put in the work.&School Integration, recognized that the city's «adoption of stronger socioeconomic measures, as well as its regional approach to desegregation, careful timing, and continued emphasis on school quality represent critical lessons that could be adopted by other regions and school districts willing to put in the work.&school quality represent critical lessons that could be adopted by other regions and school districts willing to put in the work.&school districts willing to put in the work.»

Soon after Brown's federal desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools in order to avoid anticipated racial strife envisioned as a result of the public school integration mandate.»

And this is an important point to make if we are ever going to convince parents — as we must, given the troubled history of legislating school desegregation — to voluntarily enroll their children in racially and economically diverse schools.

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.

However, as Johnson (2011) argues, desegregation actually increased school quality and per - pupil spending for black students, increasing black students» educational attainment with no effect on the attainment of white students.

Over the past generation, federal courts have stopped monitoring desegregation plans that school districts had implemented because of earlier court orders; in 2007, the Supreme Court went so far as to overturn voluntary desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisville.

But what both sides fail to understand is that desegregation was pursued mostly as a last resort; blacks wouldn't achieve it immediately through the fiscal means (equal funding of schools) simply because of the opposition of Jim Crow segregationist - controlled school boards and legislatures.

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 school system was under a desegregation order from the U.S. Department of Justice, and Lakeview Middle, with its high population of poor students, was identified as having vestiges of inequity.

In the case of magnet schools, the growth has come as a result of implementing the Sheff v. O'Neill desegregation settlement.

After the Federal Court officially endorsed magnet schools as a viable desegregation method in 1975 - 76, the number of magnet schools nearly doubled in the 1980s, and they remain popular today.

The DeVos family was also deeply involved in repackaging vouchers from their original racist origin as a way to get white children out of desegregation and into an «only hope» for urban children «trapped» in «failing schools.»

In 2011 - 12, a majority of magnet schools and technical schools were «integrated,» as measured by the standard set forth in the 2008 settlement agreement of the landmark Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation case: a school with a student body composed of between 25 % and 75 % minority students... In contrast, only 18 % of charter schools met the Sheff standard.