Sentences with phrase «goals of its desegregation»

Magnet high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are not meeting the goal of desegregation.

This suggests that without the explicit goal of desegregation, integration does not occur.

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Numerous racial - desegregation cases, in which the goal of integration to remedy intentional discrimination is relatively clear, have lasted for decades.

San Francisco's groundbreaking economic - desegregation plan satisfies the short - term goals of the litigants — creating a student - assignment system that avoids racial quotas, passes constitutional muster, yet also maintains a degree of racial diversity in the schools, given the connection between racial and economic status.

Thus, although proponents of magnet schools have not disavowed the desegregation goal that is the program's roots, they currently place almost equal emphasis on magnets as instruments of school choice.

The study, which one of the researchers provided to Education Week, also indicates that some grants under the federal magnet - schools program are going to districts that have no realistic chance of furthering the program's primary goal of promoting racial desegregation.

«The educational goal of the March on Washington — school desegregation — is a condition affecting black students in which we are sliding backwards,» Richard Rothstein, its author, wrote.

Darien Franco, 2011 graduate of Capital Preparatory Magnet School told me, «I think that the desegregation goal is a bit superficial because what I assume is the whole point is part of an effort to make sure everyone's getting a similar, quality education.

I am focusing on magnet schools in this essay because these schools are designed to have a specific racial balance in order to achieve the goal of desegregating Connecticut's public schools, yet demographics play out differently depending on the school, and some schools are struggling to maintain their required desegregation standards.

Indeed, one wonders if Connecticut officials had forced Hartford's charters to abide by desegregation policies all along, would the city have reached its Sheff goals long ago, saving the state millions of dollars?

INNOVATION SCHOOL GRANTS Requires SDE to establish a pilot grant program, within available appropriations, for a local or regional board of education operating an innovation school to help the state meet the desegregation goals of the 2008 Sheff v. O'Neill stipulation and court order.

With the rise of right - wing federalism, desegregation was no longer an important goal, and the rest is the history we are now living.

Because the LAUSD magnet schools were created with the objective of desegregation, it is this transitioning group of schools that are relevant for analyzing integration levels, if it is the case that LAUSD magnets are changing goals.

Because racial integration and desegregation are part of the guidelines, it appears that these are still goals of LAUSD magnet schools.