Sentences with phrase «desegregation plans»

States such as Missouri, Ohio, and Michigan have challenged court - ordered desegregation plans in order to reduce their financial and legal liability.

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.

New NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semi-apology for retweeting 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.

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,...

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.

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...

How can site - based management create a sense of community in schools that draw from a large geographic area, as do most secondary schools; and in schools in districts with desegregation plans, choice, open enrollment, or magnet schools?

In Greenville, the federally approved desegregation plans of 50 years ago were nothing if not a sincere attempt to achieve total integration.

«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.»

Before it was repealed in 1981, when the Congress passed the education block - grants law, esaa provided categorical grants to school districts implementing desegregation plans.

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.

An NAACP official in Jacksonville to whom the package bomb was delivered was later the object of death threats for her participation in a new desegregation plan for the Duval County district.

The Justice Department and the Office for Civil Rights need to take enforcement actions under Title VI in some substantial school districts in order to revive federal policy sanctions for actions that either foster segregation or ignore responsibilities under desegregation plans.

Federal judges who oversee desegregation plans in Louisiana are wrestling with that issue at a time when President Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on charter schools, vouchers and other «school choice» initiatives.

These trends began to reverse after a 1991 Supreme Court decision made it easier for school districts and courts to dismantle desegregation plans.

The last major federal initiative for desegregating schools came almost 40 years ago, and three Supreme Court decisions in the 1990s undid many successful desegregation plans (see Orfield & Eaton, 1996).

The rollback started with the Milliken v. Bradley decision in 1974, which prohibited the incorporation of suburbs into urban desegregation plans.

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.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) has recently come under fire from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which alleges that the use of private school vouchers by low - income students fails to conform to federal school - desegregation plans initiated in the 1970s.

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.

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

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.

It also examines a decade of resegregation from the Supreme Court's Dowell v. Oklahoma City (1991) decision, which authorized a return to segregated neighborhood schools, through the 2001 - 2002 school year and provides new information on the changes in schools where desegregation plans have ended.

It would represent the most substantial alteration of Boston's school - desegregation plan since it was imposed by a court order in 1975.

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.

Contrary to the contentions of some members of Congress who seek to limit the use of compulsory busing for school desegregation, mandatory desegregation plans are more effective in reducing racial isolation than are voluntary plans and do not appear to cause more «white flight» in the long run than voluntary techniques, according to a Vanderbilt University study.

The state of Missouri asked the High Court to overturn lower - court rulings that require it to continue paying for Kansas City's elaborate desegregation plan, which has cost more than $ 1.3 billion since it began in 1985.

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.

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.

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The «tragic decision» Grant refers to is a 1974 Supreme Court ruling striking down a Detroit desegregation plan that would have merged urban and suburban districts.

In the 1960's, the state of Connecticut began bussing urban students to suburban schools, as a part of a school desegregation plan known as «Project Concern.»

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.

Or we can incentivize school districts to take action, imposing segregation and providing financial resources to districts with aggressive desegregation plans.

As incentive to integrate, the federal government offered emergency dollars to districts whose desegregation plans were approved.

Reardon says: «The inter-district desegregation plans in communities like Boston and Palo Alto have had a lot of public support.

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.

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.»

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

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.

«In 1980 a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice resulted in a court ordered desegregation plan, but by then many white familes had moved to the suburbs, and many others had moved their children to private and parochial schools.

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.

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.