Sentences with phrase «for desegregation»

The Commissioner is authorized, upon the application of any school board, State, municipality, school district, or other governmental unit legally responsible for operating a public school or schools, to render technical assistance to such applicant in the preparation, adoption, and implementation of plans for the desegregation of public schools.

Through looking at the fight for the desegregation in the Muscogee County School District, one can take away important lessons about how the black community felt during this time and can gauge the activity of the church in the fight for rights.

The school board and community have been sharply divided since the early 1970's — first over court - ordered busing for desegregation in the 90,000 - student system, and later over the performance of former Superintendent E.C. Grayson.

Residents started leaving the historically white, blue - collar Belmont neighborhood in the 1970s with Dayton's adoption of busing for desegregation.

But the extent to which state constitutions provide support for desegregation by race is unclear.

Initially a tool for desegregation efforts in the 1970s (i.e., by encouraging white parents to stay in urban districts), magnets have evolved to serve a wide variety of purposes and settings.

Overview of Lesson Plan: In this two - day lesson plan, students examine the struggle for desegregation during the Civil Rights Movement and a current study that finds that American schools are reverting to segregation.

As a candidate for governor, Hawkins said he wants to push for the desegregation of public schools in New York state.

After the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, called for the desegregation of schools in the United States, districts worked to begin integration, but many areas, like Little Rock, Arkansas, remained resistant.

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.

St. Francis opened in 1951, three years before the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision paved the way for desegregation in public schools across the country.

That study found the program decreased segregation in public schools while having no effect on segregation in private schools — and in school systems under court orders for desegregation it had a positive effect in both public and private schools.

But Fariña said she's happy with the plans to rezone District 3 schools and families must participate for desegregation to work.

We need to invest in more public and affordable housing in the suburbs and cities: scattered - site, mixed - income, mixed - race, clean energy positive, carbon negative — this is a program not only for desegregation in schools, but also for jobs, housing, energy and residential race and class desegregation.

Dingell voted for the bill making it illegal to discriminate based on race, but told CNN his support for desegregation spurred a «nasty» primary challenge for his seat from a fellow Democrat who opposed the legislation.

The persistent, large outcome gaps and waning support for desegregation do provide grounds for exploring other policies, including enriched early - childhood education and substantially different models for delivering elementary and secondary education.

In addition, African American and Hispanic support for desegregation appears to be declining.

In the highly successful movie «The Great Debaters,» starring Denzel Washington, a student was defending her argument for the desegregation of schools.

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.

As the potential for desegregation efforts is determined by the distribution of students among districts, I report the index for districts as well as for schools.

Education Week, 8/2/16 «Bussing for desegregation sparked controversies across the country, and engendered few fans.

For some, they point to the need for desegregation; for others, they suggest that schools do not matter; and for a third group, they highlight the overwhelming importance of the family.

Charter schools were not set up, as the authors assert, to be «a force for desegregation,» admirable as that goal is.

The report finds that in the past decade there has been backward movement for desegregation in U.S. schools, especially for Latino and African - American students, and particularly in the South; and that Asian students are the most integrated and most successful students by far.

The district found that it had to repay the state for $ 4 million that had been earmarked for desegregation efforts and then inappropriately spent.

He now leads the charge for desegregation and equal educational opportunity in the 50,000 - student district.

Over the past three years, the district has enrolled 2,200 students into a new early - childhood program financed partly through the release of funds formerly set aside for desegregation efforts, bringing up the number of enrolled students.

Identifying peer achievement spillovers: Implications for desegregation and the achievement gap

It is not an understatement to say that Viola Desmond is Nova Scotia's Rosa Parks, in short Ms Desmond struck a blow for desegregation in Nova Scotia based upon her choice of a seat in a movie theatre in New Glasgow in 1946.

Bearden made the collage and designed the set for his friend's 1957 same - titled off - Broadway play, a drama about a South Carolina pastor who fought for desegregation.

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.

From the 1940s onwards, liberal Democrats began pushing for desegregation and civil rights legislation for racial minorities.

Hawkins called for desegregation of the school district and consolidation with neighboring suburban school districts.

«My intense desire to see my school excel comes not only from an unwavering belief that all students deserve an excellent education, but also the unique role Sousa played in the civil rights movement,» said Kamras referring to a challenge to segregation at Sousa that culminated in Bolling v. Sharpe, the 1954 Supreme Court case that paved the way for the desegregation of all DC public schools.

President Nixon even addressed a national audience to criticize busing for desegregation, especially busing that crossed the line between cities and suburbs.

This federal program was established in the 1960s to assist local education agencies in creating and implementing plans for the desegregation of public schools.

Titles include Edwidge Danticat's Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation, and Duncan Tonatiuh's Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation.

Reports of «reverse white flight» into the Los Angeles schools following the end of mandatory busing for desegregation may be premature and exaggerated, officials say.

As a result of the Milliken decision and residential segregation, poor, minority students would stay in the cities, and the suburbs would be spared from busing for desegregation.

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation.

Wrenching photos serve as powerful visual testament to McWhorter's lucid overview of the struggle for desegregation and civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s.

«Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation,» written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.

«Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation,» illustrated and written by Duncan Tonatiuh, and published by Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS.

A «compelling story told with impeccable care» is how the starred Kirkus review describes Duncan Tonatiuh's Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation.