Sentences with phrase «desegregation settlement»

In the case of magnet schools, the growth has come as a result of implementing the Sheff v. O'Neill desegregation settlement.

Even worse, because the move is «part of the Sheff desegregation settlement» it will make a mockery of the historic effort and the tens of million in public funds that have been spent to implement the Sheff settlement initiatives to date.

Indiana officials have agreed to provide the Fort Wayne schools with an extra $ 12.9 million over six years to fund educational improvements as part of a desegregation settlement.

Not exact matches

But in recent weeks, settlements in cases involving Bakersfield, Calif., and the Ohio cities of Lima and Cincinnati have once again directed attention to these specialty schools as they were originally conceived — as tools for desegregation.

Under the terms of a court settlement reached with the aid of a nationally known desegregation researcher, the San Francisco Unified School District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup program.

A federal judge overseeing a 26 - year - old school desegregation case in Chicago has indicated that as long as some details are added, he is inclined to approve a proposed final settlement between the school system and the U.S. Department of Justice that could end court supervision of the district by July of next year.

Representatives in a long - running desegregation lawsuit involving Mississippi's higher education system have reached a $ 503 million settlement that is intended to address decades of deliberate racial segregation in state colleges and universities.

All three proposals were introduced as pieces of the state's negotiated settlement with plaintiffs in the Sheff v. O'Neill desegregation case for the 2014 - 15 year.

We've also witnessed recently how committed Malloy is to school desegregation — 17 years after Sheff, 5 years after a settlement, and several percentage points off a minimum target, all Malloy can say is «Are we there yet?

In 2011 - 12, a majority of magnet schools and technical schools were «integrated,» as measured by the standard set forth in the 2008 settlement agreement of the landmark Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation case: a school with a student body composed of between 25 % and 75 % minority students... In contrast, only 18 % of charter schools met the Sheff standard.