Sentences with phrase «desegregation order»

US ED changed the definition of «desegregation order» between the 2011 - 12 data collection and the 2013 - 14 data collection, but the relationship of this change to the increase is not currently known.

-LSB-...] Our goal in filing a motion for further relief -LSB-...] was straightforward: The United States is seeking the court's assistance in ensuring that the information Louisiana collects in connection with its school voucher program is provided to the United States in a timely fashion and that Louisiana implements its program in full compliance with federal law, including the desegregation order in this case.

His courage of conviction in the early 2000s as he and fellow board members pursued unitary status for Aldine ISD following a 40 - year court - mandated desegregation order framed the next 10 years of his journey as a reform leader.

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.

Giving parents citywide choice after decades under a desegregation order that failed to integrate the schools;

Detroit was placed under a court - mandated desegregation order that involved nearly 800,000 students and fifty - two suburban districts.

In 1974, the Supreme Court struck down the desegregation order — a landmark ruling that relieved suburban districts of their burden to help ease racial disparities in the city and set the stage for a long battle over whose responsibility it was to lift the Detroit school system out of its quagmire.

The irony was lost on DOJ that they were using a desegregation order in an attempt to keep black students in mostly black schools and prevent them from attending other schools that may not enroll mostly black students.

It removed the case from its active docket while stating that it expected the board «to continue to implement those portions of the desegregation order which are by their nature of a continuing effect.»

In September 2014, the DOJ used a 1975 federal desegregation order, Brumfield v. Dodd, 405 F. Supp.

They asked the court to dissolve the desegregation order and to hold the use of magnet school racial guidelines unconstitutional.

In lifting the desegregation order governing the public schools in Muscogee County, Ga., federal Judge J. Robert Elliott noted that he was the only person who had had a continuous connection with the case since it was filed in 1964.

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

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.

Hickok: If an existing desegregation order limits public school choice, then the district has the obligation to go back to the office that issued the order to change it, so the district can offer public school choice.

Concluding that the Charlotte - Mecklenburg district has fulfilled the purpose of its 30 - year - old desegregation order and eliminated all vestiges of a dual system of segregated schools, a federal judge has declared the North Carolina district unitary.

The voluntary exchange program is one part of a desegregation order handed down by U.S. District Judge H. Barefoot Sanders in February 1982.

The Prince George's County, Md., school board has reached a milestone in its lengthy effort to end mandatory busing dating to a 1972 desegregation order.

Like a growing number of other school districts, Denver is coming to terms with the end of a court desegregation order that for years profoundly influenced, and often dictated, many of the decisions about education policy made there.

Against a background of high unemployment, a low proportion of voters with children in public schools, and a desegregation order unpopular with many residents, the Columbus, Ohio, schools last week won their first tax increase in 13 years.

Using Census and other educational data, Frankenberg found that just a few years later, starting in 1959, residents in predominantly white communities began to leave the county's school system, despite Jefferson County being under a desegregation order.

The study, «Resegregation and Equity in Oklahoma City,» authored by Jennifer Jellison of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time sanctioned a return to segregated schooling by stating that districts may be released from a desegregation order if they had met certain conditions.

And he points out that Cuomo himself lives in one the neighbor hoods, in Mount Kisco, that the federal government contends is in violation of the desegregation order.

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.

He points out that Cuomo himself lives in one the neighborhoods, in Mt. Kisco, that the federal government contends is in violation of the desegregation order.

They were optimistic that southern leaders would ensure a calm reception of the desegregation order (June 2, 1954).

The Justices would certainly uphold the desegregation order.

Even as school systems redrew their boundaries, fired black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»

These «findings» by the lower court about the purported benefits of neighborhood schools were based entirely on the claims of Oklahoma City School District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation orders.

The scholarship is part of a $ 2 million effort to compensate Ms. Moseley, 57, and other African - Americans who were denied portions of their K - 12 education when some Virginia schools resisted desegregation orders in the 1950s and 1960s by closing their doors.

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.

Contrary to allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the scholarship program improves racial integration in public schools in 34 districts under desegregation orders

In the 34 districts under federal desegregation orders, 74 percent of LSP transfers enhance integration in the sending schools.

Today, Orfield's work with the Harvard Civil Rights Project seeks to keep civil rights issues front and center at a timewhen many desegregation orders are being slowly phased out.

District court judges took this to mean that desegregation orders must be revised on a regular basis to ensure racial balance.

One in four state charter laws includes a desegregation clause, and some voucher programs, like Cleveland's, were begun to address what desegregation orders had not.

Washington — School districts that were once racially segregated by law should remain bound by court desegregation orders until every wrong caused by the separation of races is cured, a lawyer for black schoolchildren in Oklahoma City told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

Justice officials have said they be4lieve the districts have satisfactorily complied with their desegregation orders.

Even as courts across the country began releasing school districts such as Kansas City, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, Savannah, Buffalo, and Boston from long - running desegregation orders during the 1990s, magnet schools continued to thrive.

However, the DOJ's procedural case is weak — the federal desegregation orders are silent on transfers to private schools — and its substantive case is practically nonexistent.

When considering only the districts that are under federal desegregation orders, 74 percent of the transfers improved integration at the sending school.

In a 70 - page opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch released the Denver schools from 21 years of federal oversight and upheld a 1974 amendment to the state constitution prohibiting districts not under federal desegregation orders from busing children for racial balance.

The DOJ, seemingly putting aside its request for a fresh injunction, responded by moving toward a regulatory approach that would honor the desegregation orders.

Figure 2 looks at the impact of LSP transfers on public schools in the 34 districts that are under federal desegregation orders.

Leaving the desegregation orders in place, he nevertheless acknowledged that the state's data showed that vouchers were promoting racial balance and said he did not want to scuttle the program.

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.

This included 34 districts under federal desegregation orders.

But the U.S. Department of Justice contends that last year's voucher program damaged civil rights progress by erasing school integration gains in 13 of the 34 school systems that are under long - standing desegregation orders.

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.

This is especially significant because the EEOS data predate nearly all desegregation orders that were sufficiently mandatory to have generated any quasi-random variation.