Sentences with phrase «desegregation plan involving»

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.

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Among other findings, they concluded that 1) white enrollment declined much more in the year of plan implementation than in subsequent years, and 2) pairing and clustering, the desegregation technique that involved the joining of schools with initially very different black and white enrollment shares into a single attendance zone, produced the largest average white - enrollment losses surrounding plan implementation in the period of greatest desegregation activity.

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.