Sentences with phrase «districts for segregation»

An inter-district desegregation lawsuit in St. Louis appeared near resolution last week as a federal district judge agreed to postpone for seven days a hearing to determine the liability of eight suburban school districts for segregation in the city's schools.

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As a result of these decisions, school districts are no longer responsible for school segregation that arises as a result of housing markets within their boundaries.

Judge Leonard B. Sand of U.S. District Court scolded state officials, however, for tolerating the racial segregation that has occurred in the Yonkers schools.

For example, a simple, streamlined process that allows families to choose any school in a large urban district — and uses a fair method for allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and school segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years aFor example, a simple, streamlined process that allows families to choose any school in a large urban district — and uses a fair method for allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and school segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years afor allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and school segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years ago.

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.

Judge Clark found the state and the school district liable for segregation, and then the issue became, what was the remedy?

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

The Waterbury (Conn.) Board of Education has proposed to increase involuntary busing for racial balance to satisfy state officials who previously had insisted the district ease segregation by building a new school.

Indeed, if six black students attempted to leave a school that was 80 percent black in a district that was 90 percent black, that would likely raise the DOJ's ire for increasing «segregation.»

In fact, as Duke economist Charles Clotfelter has pointed out, segregation levels within school districts have actually decreased since the 1970s, after allowing for the changing demographic of urban populations.

If one examines the context more specifically, one finds that the districts» plans reflect efforts to overcome a history of segregation, embody the results of broad experience and community consultation, seek to expand student choice while reducing the need for mandatory busing, and use race - conscious criteria in highly limited ways that diminish the use of race compared to preceding integration efforts.

Outside of the smaller number of districts where secession is taking place, trends in segregation are more complicated, since the student population has become more diverse over time, Steve Rivkin writes in an article for Education Next.

In detailing the program's existence, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi found that segregation academies in the state were consistently established in public school districts that had either recently been forced to desegregate by the courts or had recently submitted desegregation plans.48 Appendix B of the court's ruling reveals the percentage of tuition that was covered by the vouchers offered to students at a number of the state's segregation academies.

Waldrip, whose full article is linked here with many more specifics acknowledges that while magnet schools are still used to improve diversity and reduce segregation, they have rapidly become superior options within the public sector for all students, even in districts of primarily one race.

One study, for instance, found that among the country's largest 100 school districts, economic segregation between schools in the same district has risen 40 percent since 1970.36

This kind of information would enable school districts to: 1) thoughtfully address segregation issues, 2) allow schools to purposefully locate in areas that need more diverse schools, and 3) hold states publicly accountable for their effort (or lack of it) toward economic integration

For instance, the authors excluded districts with poverty rates of less than 20 percent or more than 80 percent — districts with extremely high or low rates can do very little to remedy segregation within their district boundaries.69 The authors also excluded school districts with fewer than ten schools.

NEW YORK — New York City Councilmembers, charter and district school leaders and parent activists convened tonight in Brooklyn for a first - of - its - kind panel to confront the segregation crisis in New York City public schools.

During his career, Dr. Valencia has served as an expert witness for plaintiffs of color in a number of education lawsuits, most recently in the 2006 federal - level Santamaria v. Dallas Independent School District segregation case in which the plaintiffs prevailed.

As school districts grapple with the intransigent problem of racial and socioeconomic segregation, the EACs must continue to play a critical role in providing direct civil rights support to school districts to ensure equitable practices and outcomes for children.

As for segregation in schools, it may be time to turn the tables and blame the districts.

By working with parents to examine their privilege and understand that their impact matters more than their intentions, Integrated Schools prepares parents to support meaningfully integrated classrooms that reflect the diversity of their district as well as school communities that respect ALL families and are galvanized around supporting ALL children Through national organizing to promote local action, we support, educate, develop and mobilize families to «live their values,» disrupt segregation, and leverage their choices for the well - being and futures for their own children, for all children, and for our democracy.

It includes measures of academic achievement and achievement gaps for school districts and counties, as well as district - level measures of racial and socioeconomic composition, racial and socioeconomic segregation patterns, and other features of the schooling system.

In Lee County Schools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percent black.

This was a middle - class to working - class suburban Detroit district, virtually all white, in the era shortly before busing was first considered as a remedy for de facto segregation.

These practices are: 1) inclusive education is not a separate initiative from general education, 2) students receiving special education services are general education students first, 3) decisions about student services are based on individual student needs, 4) the district must raise its expectations for students with disabilities and end their social and physical segregation, and 5) the success of every student is the collective responsibility of all district educators.

Los Angeles — February 4, 2010 — Today, the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA issued «Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,» a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government data and an examination of charter schools in 40 states and the District of Columbia, along with several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charters.

The Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA issued «Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,» a nationwide report based on an analysis of Federal government data and an examination of charter schools in 40 states and the District of Columbia, along with several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charters.

In my district, Stamford, we abandoned an open lottery for our magnet schools years ago, as we found it that it increased segregation.

While the State of Connecticut spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in our urban school districts, as required by Connecticut's Constitution and Courts, Governor Dannel Malloy is pumping more than $ 100 million a year into Connecticut Charter Schools despite the fact that they have become a primary vehicle for the segregation of our public school system.

Even Cami Anderson, the state - appointed superintendent of the Newark School District and a strong supporter of charter schools, has publicly acknowledged the challenges that this segregation presents for her school dDistrict and a strong supporter of charter schools, has publicly acknowledged the challenges that this segregation presents for her school districtdistrict.

The outcomes we can measure show it's leading to increased segregation and increased burdens for districts,» said Gary Miron, a researcher and education professor at Western Michigan University who studies school choice data.

(2012, p. 206) However, what many of these analyses miss is the role of education policy and marketing in also perpetuating segregation, in particular the growing concept of buying into a school district and «shopping for schools» that became popular in the late 1950s to early 1960s (Dougherty, 2012, p. 205).