Sentences with phrase «desegregation plan»

«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.

Local PUSH president Reverend Dr. William H. Howell stated: «If we must march let us march against the Klan mentally in government, industry and business... We need to march for a workable affirmative action plan, and for the full implementation of the desegregation plan in our school.»

An emphasis on academic performance may take away time and attention from desegregation plan making.

The court ordered the District to prepare a desegregation plan for immediate use» (Justia U.S. Supreme Court).

General Anthony Tata (class of 2009), has been embroiled in controversy for dismantling Wake County's desegregation plan.

-- A Republican - led effort to dismantle the desegregation plan in Louisville appears to have failed — at least this time around: The Washington Post.

Pat served on the Community Education Council appointed by Judge William Doyle to oversee the desegregation plan.

In Cleveland, a federal judge surprised the nation last May by deciding the district's longtime desegregation plan wasn't enough, because only one of its two high schools is racially integrated.

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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 of Education.

In late 2014, the state launched a first - of - its - kind desegregation plan — the Socioeconomic Integration Pilot program — using federal School Improvement Grant, or SIG, funds.

In fact, the schools closed last week received tens of millions of dollars under the desegregation plan.

Denver — The Denver school board's proposal to end eight years of mandatory busing, formulated in response to a judge's request for a «unitary, non-racial» enrollment policy, is not a desegregation plan, school officials admitted in federal district court last week.

The superintendent of the Seattle public schools has proposed a new desegregation plan for the 44,000 - student district that would halve the number of pupils bused to promote integration.

Even the No Child Left Behind Act's requirement that school districts adopt a voluntary desegregation plan, for instance, may conflict with legal precedents set in most federal appeals courts.

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.

When the court - ordered desegregation plan in Prince George's County was ended in 2002, the superintendent formed a panel of experts on magnet schools that was thought to be politically and ideologically diverse.

In a decision this month, U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick, who approved the district's desegregation plan 14 years ago, affirmed that it is constitutional but left open the possibility that it may be time to end it.

In his 5 1/2 years in Topeka, he has overseen the implementation of a court - ordered desegregation plan, the passage of two bond issues, and the creation of a strategic plan for the 14,000 - student district.

San Francisco's groundbreaking economic - desegregation plan satisfies the short - term goals of the litigants — creating a student - assignment system that avoids racial quotas, passes constitutional muster, yet also maintains a degree of racial diversity in the schools, given the connection between racial and economic status.

Jonathan Guryan in 2002 used the desegregation plan data assembled by Welch and Light to study the change in high - school dropout rates between 1970 and 1980, and found that the implementation of desegregation during the 1970s reduced the high - school dropout rate during that period.

Eleven school districts in suburbs of Kansas City, Mo., have asked a federal appeals court to halt the St. Louis area's voluntary cross-district desegregation plan, contending that it could imperil their own desegregation case.

A federal appeals court in Boston has narrowly upheld a voluntary desegregation plan in the Lynn, Mass., school district in a case that is being closely followed by supporters and critics of race - conscious policies in K - 12 schooling.

As a result, white suburban school districts were under no constitutional requirement to integrate their schools when their new white students had fled a central - city school district that was promulgating a desegregation plan.

A Union County, N.J., judge has ruled that the Hillside Board of Education must turn over to the state data on its racially imbalanced elementary schools so that a desegregation plan can be implemented by the beginning of next school year.

And in another case that has gained widespread attention, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit last week refused to delay implementation of a voluntary student - desegregation plan involving public schools in St. Louis and its suburbs.

City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semi-apology Monday for tweeting a story that cast Upper West Side parents opposed to a school desegregation plan as little more than wealthy white racists.

Armor said he has helped design desegregation plans for schools but opposes mandatory measures such as the busing that was instituted in Boston in the 1970s.

«The Oklahoma City case study suggests,» wrote Jellison, «that integration plans, with a great deal of effort, can work more effectively and that courts, rather than releasing districts from desegregation plans after only several years of operation, should ensure that everything possible is being done to promote an integration plan's success.»

Earlier this month, state attorneys asked Judge DiBuono to force the city's school board to choose one of three desegregation plans that had been approved by Saul Cooperman,...

Before it was repealed in 1981, when the Congress passed the education block - grants law, esaa provided categorical grants to school districts implementing desegregation plans.

Finis Welch and Audrey Light published a study in 1987 that used 16 years of data on enrollments and desegregation program status to study in detail the changes in white enrollment surrounding the implementation of 116 major desegregation plans between 1967 and 1985.

In the 1990s, a new set of decisions by a more conservative Supreme Court required that many large (and successful) desegregation plans be dismantled across the country.

active support by private foundations and community groups of efforts to continue local desegregation plans and programs, through research, advocacy and litigation;

Because pairing and clustering mandates student involvement in desegregation and typically requires that students travel greater distances than under the redrawing of school catchment areas or other voluntary desegregation plans, the finding that this plan type produces the largest enrollment response is consistent with expectations.

Despite the limitations imposed by the Supreme Court in Milliken I, several lower courts have since decided that cross-district desegregation plans can be legally justified under certain circumstances.

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

CHICAGO — Desegregation plans that provide for the busing of students between central - city and suburban schools are more effective in producing lasting integration than more limited types of plans, a new study released here concludes.

Before coming to the Baldwin, she worked at Brown University for three years as a coordinator for a desegregation assistance center, charged with helping New England school districts comply with desegregation plans.

About the Report This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Court's 1991 Dowell decision, which allowed school districts to declare themselves unitary, end their desegregation plans, and to return to neighborhood school plans that produce intense segregation and inequality clearly visible in educational opportunities and outcomes.

Ruling in the Oklahoma City school desegregation case, a divided U.S. Supreme Court holds that districts that were once racially segregated by law may be freed from court - ordered desegregation plans if they have done their best to eradicate the vestiges of their discriminatory systems and have met court orders.

The legislation that created the LSP acknowledges that the program is subject to these desegregation plans.

Cities that have implemented successful school desegregation plans have witnessed increased interracial contact and neighborhoods that tend to become less racially segregated.

No. 1, supra, at 461; Seattle Public Schools Desegregation Planning Office, Proposed Alternative Desegregation Plans: Options for Eliminating Racial Imbalance by the 1979 - 80 School Year (Sept. 1977)(filed with the Court as Exh.

[15] This minimum percentage is reduced from 35 percent to 25 percent for schools participating in certain desegregation plans.

The grants aim to help districts establish or expand magnet programs that are part of their approved desegregation plans.

In an examination of desegregation plans around the country, two of the study's authors — David J. Armor, a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Policy at George Mason University in Virginia,...

One clear cause of this resegregation was the Supreme Court authorizing the termination of desegregation plans.40 Gary Orfield with the UCLA Civil Rights Project explains, «segregation increased substantially after [integration] plans were terminated in many large districts.»

During the 1970s and 1980s, for instance, the Nixon and Reagan administrations strongly opposed court - ordered busing — then a popular method of district integration — and weakened civil rights policies that would have promoted systemwide desegregation plans.43

In detailing the program's existence, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi found that segregation academies in the state were consistently established in public school districts that had either recently been forced to desegregate by the courts or had recently submitted desegregation plans.48 Appendix B of the court's ruling reveals the percentage of tuition that was covered by the vouchers offered to students at a number of the state's segregation academies.