Sentences with phrase «desegregation program»

SR: One of the unfortunate legacies of the desegregation efforts that followed the Brown v. Board of Education decision is a lack of understanding of the impacts of various types of desegregation programs in different settings.

Block Grant Fallout: A widely praised voluntary school desegregation program in Montclair, N.J., will be all but wiped out next year because the federal money that supported it must be shared by school systems throughout the state.

The Greens have called for Foundation Aid to be fully funded immediately, for the school aid formula to be reformed so it is more need - based, and for the state to support school desegregation programs such as intra - and inter-district public school choice, consolidation, and incentives (such as magnet schools).

In approving magnet - driven, voluntary desegregation programs in Buffalo and Milwaukee, the courts seemed more than willing to accept reasonable alternatives to the forced dissolution of geography - based school assignments.

Although further research is needed to better understand the reasons behind these closures, some of these closures coincided with the ending of court ordered desegregation programs.

The absence of an evaluation component from most desegregation programs has both complicated efforts to measure short - and long - term program effects and hindered the development of more effective strategies to improve outcomes and reduce achievement gaps.

«There will be no one - size - fits - all solution to this challenge,» said Wallack, who noted that a new, district - wide desegregation program is now underway in Manhattan.

The key question is whether specific desegregation programs brought improved outcomes for African Americans.

An income desegregation program that involves all students may avoid the concentration of children with fewer family resources in particular schools.

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.

A handful of experimental studies of desegregation programs compare participants with nonparticipants.

Several studies have examined the average effect of either the introduction or the removal of desegregation programs using variation in timing across districts.

The Emergency School Aid Act, a $ 149 million federal desegregation program that provided funding to Montclair, was wiped out along with 25 other federal programs when Congress passed a package of education block grants in the summer of 1981.

The state of Missouri has entered a tentative agreement that would free it from having to pay for Kansas City's elaborate school - desegregation program after 1999.

Superintendent William M. Kendrick's March 23 proposal to the city school board came some 10 years after Seattle became one of the nation's first major cities to undertake a comprehensive desegregation program voluntarily.

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.

And taxpayers in nine school districts will pay more in local taxes through an accounting maneuver on desegregation programs, including a $ 16.7 million shift to homeowners in TUSD.

Prior to that, in 1976, Buffalo teachers went on strike during the first phase of a court - ordered desegregation program.

Children board a school bus in 1978 after the start of Seattle's voluntary school desegregation program, which was the first major city in the U.S. to desegregate voluntarily.

The absence of an evaluation component from most desegregation programs has complicated efforts to measure program effects.

Mary Washington, head of Local 420, responded that Hubbard had run away from the St. Louis schools when as a student he used the voluntary desegregation program to transfer to the Mehlville school district.

While the Court's decision will have obvious implications for the future of desegregation programs, it may also complicate the implementation of NCLB.

Desegregation programs in some cities prompted «white flight,» although over the long run it appears to have had only a small effect on housing patterns in most communities.

«This new public housing program will be a jobs program, a desegregation program, and a clean energy program as well as an affordable housing program.

In the most recent episode of This American Life, Nikole Hannah - Jones tells the story of a school district that accidentally launched a desegregation program.

This was a basic finding from my interviews with adult graduates of Boston's voluntary city - suburban school desegregation program, METCO (recounted in The Other Boston Busing Story, Yale University Press, 2001).

In addition, these studies capture only the most direct impacts of the desegregation program and are limited to a few interventions that may not be typical.

Though we are advocates of the desegregation program we, along with other suburban schools, will be forced to make a tough decision: keep St. Louis city children at our expense or send them back to a system that is clearly fragile and ailing.

Our district participates in a desegregation program called the Voluntary Transfer Program (VTP) wherein approximately 20 % of our student body comes from the city of St. Louis.

My concern, though, is that if vouchers are offered as an alternative to the desegregation program, the St. Louis public school system will be forced into the same exact predicament.

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.

Long - term studies of black adults who as children were subject to court - ordered desegregation programs, have found significant gains from attending integrated schools, including higher earnings and better health.

Columbia University professor Amy Stuart Wells, for example, concluded that the decisions of St. Louis parents participating in a voluntary desegregation program were based «on a perception that county is better than city and white is better than black, not on factual information about the schools.»