Sentences with phrase «desegregation plan as»

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.

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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.

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 since 1975.

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.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

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.

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.

As the La Crosse plan attests, and as controlled - choice options based on race (such as that in use in Boston) confirm, unless neighborhoods are economically integrated, the only way to facilitate desegregation is through some coercive element, such as quotaAs the La Crosse plan attests, and as controlled - choice options based on race (such as that in use in Boston) confirm, unless neighborhoods are economically integrated, the only way to facilitate desegregation is through some coercive element, such as quotaas controlled - choice options based on race (such as that in use in Boston) confirm, unless neighborhoods are economically integrated, the only way to facilitate desegregation is through some coercive element, such as quotaas that in use in Boston) confirm, unless neighborhoods are economically integrated, the only way to facilitate desegregation is through some coercive element, such as quotaas quotas.

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 program.

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.

For the past nine months, Mr. Reville had served as metropolitan supervisor of desegregation in Little Rock, Ark., where he crafted new student - assignment plans for the three districts involved in the case.

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.

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.»

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.

Earlier planned litigation strategies (such as campaigns for school desegregation and for the abolition of capital punishment) took place primarily within the court system, employing legal argumentation as the mechanism for social change.