Sentences with phrase «federal desegregation court»

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

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The most celebrated example of Federal intervention in state and local school affairs is the 1954 racial desegregation decision of the United States Supreme Court.

Therefore, they contended that a lower federal court in Little Rock had no constitutional authority to order the desegregation of public schools in Arkansas on the basis of the Brown decision.

The argument plays to Alabama's primal fear of federal control, a fear born of years of resentment over U.S. courts» ordering the desegregation of schools and the creation of black - majority legislative districts.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, acting in a case that has been closely monitored across the nation, has upheld a federal district judge's order freezing $ 47.5 - million in Education Department funds pending the Reagan Administration's payment of desegregation aid to Chicago's schools.

A federal appeals court in Boston has narrowly upheld a voluntary desegregation plan in the Lynn, Mass., school district in a case that is being closely followed by supporters and critics of race - conscious policies in K - 12 schooling.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education found legally segregated schools to be unconstitutional, but it was not until the legislative and executive branches put the full strength of the federal government behind desegregation efforts, by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that serious progress was made in the South.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

Eleven school districts in suburbs of Kansas City, Mo., have asked a federal appeals court to halt the St. Louis area's voluntary cross-district desegregation plan, contending that it could imperil their own desegregation case.

Few remember that the Nixon administration conditioned federal aid to southern schools on their compliance with desegregation court orders; that policy appears to have aided the desegregation efforts that federal courts were insisting upon.

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.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

In the early 1970s, the federal courts ordered a number of states to pay school desegregation costs, but these rulings were limited in number and had little overall effect on state systems for school funding.

Lawyers for the state of Ohio last month asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to overturn a federal district court's ruling that expanded the state's responsibility to fund school desegregation in Lorain County under the terms of a consent deCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to overturn a federal district court's ruling that expanded the state's responsibility to fund school desegregation in Lorain County under the terms of a consent decourt's ruling that expanded the state's responsibility to fund school desegregation in Lorain County under the terms of a consent decree.

A reissued decision in the Topeka, Kan., school - desegregation suit gives a more detailed picture of a federal appellate panel's deep division over the need for continued court supervision in the historic case.

Racial desegregation: The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments on whether the DeKalb County, Ga., schools should be freed from federal - court oversCourt hears oral arguments on whether the DeKalb County, Ga., schools should be freed from federal - court overscourt oversight.

Before the 21st century, he notes, the federal government did not tell states and local school districts how to run their schools, with the exception of areas like desegregation and special education where there had been court rulings.

Even the No Child Left Behind Act's requirement that school districts adopt a voluntary desegregation plan, for instance, may conflict with legal precedents set in most federal appeals courts.

A 43 - year - old desegregation case involving the Hillsborough County, Fla., school system came to an end last week, as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to disturb a federal appeals court ruling that the district was no longer segregCourt declined to disturb a federal appeals court ruling that the district was no longer segregcourt ruling that the district was no longer segregated.

Denver school officials said they planned to file a motion late last week seeking to end federal court supervision of the district's 22 - year old desegregation effort.

His lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of a district policy setting quotas for minority students that stems from the federal court's 1975 desegregation order.

Denver — The Denver school board's proposal to end eight years of mandatory busing, formulated in response to a judge's request for a «unitary, non-racial» enrollment policy, is not a desegregation plan, school officials admitted in federal district court last week.

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.

It is well known that federal courts since the 1990s have been withdrawing from active involvement in school desegregation.

A federal judge has postponed the dates for court hearings on whether the North Little Rock and Pulaski County Special school districts in Arkansas have met their desegregation obligations.

The federal appellate ruling last month lets stand a massive court - ordered property - tax hike imposed last fall on the city's residents to help fund the school district's desegregation efforts, which are among the most comprehensive and expensive ever undertaken.

Several Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court asked last week whether federal - court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation Court asked last week whether federal - court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation case.

Today, this tactic continues even as school desegregation has been downgraded as a priority by the Congress and federal courts, but the politics of Republican support for private schools has gained new elements.

Authors: Dr. Ann E. Blankenship & Dr. Leslie LockeThis case study outlines the struggle for desegregation and the adoption of culturally responsive curricula in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) as it attempted to balance state politics and federal court oversight.

Over the past generation, federal courts have stopped monitoring desegregation plans that school districts had implemented because of earlier court orders; in 2007, the Supreme Court went so far as to overturn voluntary desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisvcourt orders; in 2007, the Supreme Court went so far as to overturn voluntary desegregation plans in Seattle and LouisvCourt went so far as to overturn voluntary desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisville.

-LSB-...] Our goal in filing a motion for further relief -LSB-...] was straightforward: The United States is seeking the court's assistance in ensuring that the information Louisiana collects in connection with its school voucher program is provided to the United States in a timely fashion and that Louisiana implements its program in full compliance with federal law, including the desegregation order in this case.

After the Federal Court officially endorsed magnet schools as a viable desegregation method in 1975 - 76, the number of magnet schools nearly doubled in the 1980s, and they remain popular today.

Federal courts issue desegregation orders when they find that districts or states are maintaining separate educational facilities and systems for students of different races.

Citing President Eisenhower's 1957 use of the 101st Airborne to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, in furtherance of a federal judge's order, Breyer suggested that courts use such great moments in law to help teach the importance of judicial independence.