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.»
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Miller briefly relates the tale of the $ 2 billion court -
ordered desegregation plan in the mid-1980s for Kansas City, in
which teachers» salaries were raised, class sizes slashed, and beautiful facilities created.
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.
The federal appellate ruling last month lets stand a massive court -
ordered property - tax hike imposed last fall on the city's residents to help fund the school district's
desegregation efforts,
which are among the most comprehensive and expensive ever undertaken.
A model one - way
desegregation program begun 15 years ago in Hartford, Conn., is being phased out by
order of the local school board,
which argued that the district can no longer afford to send city students to suburban schools.
Buses for school
desegregation rarely crossed the urban - suburban boundary, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling in 1974,
which meant that suburban students would not have to participate in court -
ordered desegregation of city schools.
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.»
«The department's request is fully consistent with the Louisiana law that established the voucher program,
which provides that the program is «subject to any court -
ordered desegregation plan in effect for the school system in
which the public school is located.