Not exact matches
From the 1940s onwards, liberal Democrats began pushing
for desegregation and civil rights legislation
for racial minorities.
But in a new article
for Education Next, «
Desegregation Since the Coleman Report:
Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.
Numerous
racial -
desegregation cases, in which the goal of integration to remedy intentional discrimination is relatively clear, have lasted
for decades.
For an embargoed copy of «
Desegregation Since the Coleman Report:
Racial composition of schools and student learning» or to speak to the author, contact Jackie Kerstetter at
[email protected].
And Brown only required the states to implement school
desegregation «with all deliberate speed,» something less than a clarion call
for immediately rectifying the effects of
racial injustice.
School
desegregation provoked
racial conflict in Birmingham, Montgomery, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit, New York City, and other cities across the country, often
for years at a time.
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.
Through Reimagining Integration, Teitel is calling
for schools to go beyond «
desegregation» — what he calls «body counts» of students from different backgrounds — to true
racial and socioeconomical integration.
No. 1, supra, at 461; Seattle Public Schools
Desegregation Planning Office, Proposed Alternative
Desegregation Plans: Options
for Eliminating
Racial Imbalance by the 1979 - 80 School Year (Sept. 1977)(filed with the Court as Exh.
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.»
In 1974, the Supreme Court struck down the
desegregation order — a landmark ruling that relieved suburban districts of their burden to help ease
racial disparities in the city and set the stage
for a long battle over whose responsibility it was to lift the Detroit school system out of its quagmire.
Narrowing the achievement gap will require housing
desegregation: voiding exclusionary zoning, placing low - and moderate - income housing in predominantly white suburbs, and ending federal subsidies
for communities that fail to reverse policies that led to
racial exclusion.
Since the mid-1990s, New Haven has embarked on a voluntary
desegregation initiative that is intended to increase rates of
racial diversity within its public schools and improve academic outcomes
for students of color, particularly those who are black or Hispanic.
(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.
What if there were a site that —
for every U.S. public school district — tracked data on
desegregation cases and linked it to trends in
racial composition from 1968 - 2000?