Sentences with phrase «desegregation rulings in cases»

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Kansas City schools were already predominantly minority, and the Supreme Court had ruled in the Detroit case that surrounding school districts not found guilty of segregation could not be pulled into a case to provide more white students for desegregation.

The use of crosstown busing to accomplish desegregation was unprecedented — and the case went right to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the highly controversial forced integration program in 1971.

The parties in the Kansas City, Mo., desegregation case announced the accord last month, just weeks after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling absolved the state from having to finance some of the school district's most expansive and expensive desegregation remedies.

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.

WASHINGTON — After an eventful year that included important rulings on desegregation, graduation prayers, and sexual harassment in the schools, the U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term this week without any major education cases on its docket.

Ruling in a 25 - year - old school - desegregation case, the judge rejected the state's argument that the district could pay for the court mandates through cost - saving measures, including cutting...

In a blunt, unsparing 16 - page opinion, Treu compared his ruling to the seminal federal desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, decided 60 years ago last month.