Sentences with phrase «federal desegregation»

Finally, we identify public school districts under federal desegregation orders using information from the Department of Justice lawsuit, which was filed in August 2013.

Resurrecting long - ignored school desegregation lawsuits of the 1970s, the DOJ petitioned a federal district court to permanently enjoin Louisiana from awarding any vouchers to students in districts operating under federal desegregation orders until the state had received authorization from a federal court.

Holder argued that the program violated federal desegregation laws by permitting six black students to leave their elementary school.

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.

In August, the DOJ filed a motion in a decades - old federal desegregation lawsuit to enjoin the LSP from issuing any further vouchers without federal approval, arguing that the LSP negatively impacts desegregation efforts.

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.

Floyd County holds hearings on school flexibility options, chooses to continue as charter district Catoosa and Candler Counties also weighs flexibility options Peach - Byron Charter HS continues to wrestle with federal desegregation order which could compromise its opening; Judge puts a 30 day deadline on decision Furlow Charter School (Americus, -LSB-...]

A new study, appearing in Education Next, shows that in the 34 districts under federal desegregation orders, including the 24 districts specifically named in the DOJ lawsuit, LSP transfers actually improve integration in both the public schools students leave and the private schools in which they enroll.

In a 70 - page opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch released the Denver schools from 21 years of federal oversight and upheld a 1974 amendment to the state constitution prohibiting districts not under federal desegregation orders from busing children for racial balance.

In the 34 districts under federal desegregation orders, 74 percent of LSP transfers enhance integration in the sending schools.

However, the DOJ's procedural case is weak — the federal desegregation orders are silent on transfers to private schools — and its substantive case is practically nonexistent.

When considering only the districts that are under federal desegregation orders, 74 percent of the transfers improved integration at the sending school.

In the school districts under federal desegregation orders, which are the focus of the Department of Justice litigation, LSP transfers improve integration in both the sending schools and the private schools that participating students attend (receiving schools).

Figure 2 looks at the impact of LSP transfers on public schools in the 34 districts that are under federal desegregation orders.

Thirty - four Louisiana school districts remain under federal desegregation orders, and the United States remains a party to desegregation cases in 24 of these districts.

In September 2014, the DOJ used a 1975 federal desegregation order, Brumfield v. Dodd, 405 F. Supp.

This included 34 districts under federal desegregation orders.

The Justice Department has petitioned a U.S. District Courtto bar Louisiana from awarding vouchers for the 2014 - 15 school year to students in public school systems that are under federal desegregation orders, unless the vouchers are first approved by a federal judge.

Every private school participating in the voucher program must comply with the color - blind policies of the federal desegregation court orders.

Soon after Brown's federal desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools in order to avoid anticipated racial strife envisioned as a result of the public school integration mandate.»

The Goldwater Institute and the Black Alliance for Education Options are asking the judge to dismiss the case on behalf of four mostly minority families, arguing that «the judge doesn't have jurisdiction over the voucher program statewide, and that the program doesn't actually violate the federal desegregation orders the lawsuit claims it does.»

The lawsuit sought to «permanently enjoin the State of Louisiana from awarding any school vouchers to students attending schools in districts operating under federal desegregation orders» unless the state receives permission from the federal government.

Second, the court has compelled the state to provide an analysis of the program's effect on any schools now under a federal desegregation order.

First, the court must determine if a federal desegregation order applies to the voucher program.

Of 70 Louisiana districts, 34 are under federal desegregation orders.