Sentences with phrase «for racial balance»

Moreover, the admissions program approved in Grutter involved a set of holistic and individualized determinations about admissibility, and not just a crudely operated search for racial balance.

In general, state charter school legislation is less likely to contain requirements for enrolling ELL students than for racial balance or diversity standards.

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.

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.

«Busing for racial balance» has a negative tone.

Not exact matches

«7 Bennett gives as examples of middle axioms for our time the need of international collaboration in the United Nations, the maintenance of balance between free enterprise and government control of economic power, the removal of racial segregation in the churches and its progressive elimination in society.8 Provided such middle axioms are taken for what they are, as Christian «next steps» and not as a watered - down version of the full implications of the love commandment, they can be extremely helpful in the quest of a fuller justice as this is actuated by Christian love.

Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.

Wouldn't it be better to go to Hamilton, a school with a racial balance, a better reputation for both education and football?

He was also floated as a primary challenger to either state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli or Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and also as a LG running mate for Cuomo — both of which he rejected, although his presence on the ticket would have gone a long way toward adding some racial balance and quelling the concerns of black and Latino leaders.

While there's been some focus this morning on the fact that Andrew Cuomo defied a lingering expectation that he'd pick an African - American or Hispanic as his LG, Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf suggested that the geographic and religious balance, over racial and gender balance, are what the likely next governor needed for election purposes.

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

In the 1974 Milliken v. Bradley decision, the Supreme Court ruled that courts generally could not require busing across district lines to achieve racial balance; but the coming months may see more calls from liberals for moving kids across district lines to fulfill the promise of the federal law.

Also troubling for the DOJ's case was the fact that the program actually had slightly improved the levels of racial balance.

For instance, the racial composition of the school age population of the entirety of New York City has little relevance to concerns about and efforts to improve the racial balance of schools on Staten Island, which by virtue of its geography might as well be a part of New Jersey.

Originally, magnets were a way to improve racial balance voluntarily, but over time these schools became a place for smart educators to try new ideas.

It seems ironic that racial balance is rarely discussed at magnet school fairs and open houses, when it is the fundamental purpose of magnet schools and is required for the schools to be funded.

In 2007 in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, the United States Supreme Court invalidated race - conscious plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky, finding that explicitly pursuing racial balance in K - 12 schools by using race as a criterion for admission and placement was impermissible under the Constitution's equal protection clause.

A redistricting committee will consider school building use, boundaries for each neighborhood school and other factors that may have to be addressed to create a better racial balance.

Provide implicit racial bias training for teachers and administrators to help break habits of prejudice and lead to more balanced treatment of students of color.

Implicit racial bias training for teachers and administrators to help break habits of prejudice and lead to more balanced treatment of students of color.

Allowing students to use vouchers, it says, may disrupt the racial balance at schools protected by the orders, which outline rules for student transfers.

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

As employment experts, they all knew that, at her last outing on equality, she had pretty well alleged exactly that, concluding: «So do we need to revive the argument for some special provision, akin to that in Northern Ireland, to enable the appointing commissions to take racial or gender balance into account when making their appointments?

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