Sentences with phrase «for desegregation efforts»

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.

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

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.

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.

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In 1974, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall captured this in a dissent in Milliken v. Bradley, a case that rolled back the desegregation efforts called for in Brown v. Board.

The findings set the stage for furthering desegregation efforts — in particular, court - ordered busing of students in an attempt to increase the diversity of city schools.

Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous desegregation efforts in southern states.

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.»

For example, early on, President Lyndon Johnson's administration said the report endorsed its desegregation efforts by showing that blacks benefited from an integrated educational experience while whites did not suffer from it.

The tax increases will underwrite $ 187 million in capital improvements to schools, $ 35.7 million in pay raises for teachers, and other elements of the desegregation effort.

For example, Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., created magnet schools as part of its school desegregation efforts in the late 1970s.

Our analysis of the Louisiana Scholarship Program reveals that the vouchers used by the subset of recipients for whom information is available have supported public - school desegregation efforts.

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For the past year, the majority on the board of the 167 - school district have been pushing to return to zoned schooling, essentially eliminating the array of magnet schools and other options created as part of a three decade - long desegregation effort.

Critical Race Theorist Derrick Bell posits that advocacy and litigation affected by international shame have been the primary techniques for prompting change in America's school desegregation efforts.