Local PUSH president Reverend Dr. William H. Howell stated: «If we must march let us march against the Klan mentally in government, industry and business... We need to march for a workable affirmative action plan, and for the full
implementation of the desegregation plan in our school.»
Jonathan Guryan in 2002 used the desegregation plan data assembled by Welch and Light to study the change in high - school dropout rates between 1970 and 1980, and found that
the implementation of desegregation during the 1970s reduced the high - school dropout rate during that period.
Not exact matches
It is part
of the Supreme Court's legacy
of Brown vs. Board
of Education and the
implementation of school
desegregation.
And in another case that has gained widespread attention, the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit last week refused to delay
implementation of a voluntary student -
desegregation plan involving public schools in St. Louis and its suburbs.
Finis Welch and Audrey Light published a study in 1987 that used 16 years
of data on enrollments and
desegregation program status to study in detail the changes in white enrollment surrounding the
implementation of 116 major
desegregation plans between 1967 and 1985.
Among other findings, they concluded that 1) white enrollment declined much more in the year
of plan
implementation than in subsequent years, and 2) pairing and clustering, the
desegregation technique that involved the joining
of schools with initially very different black and white enrollment shares into a single attendance zone, produced the largest average white - enrollment losses surrounding plan
implementation in the period
of greatest
desegregation activity.
In his 5 1/2 years in Topeka, he has overseen the
implementation of a court - ordered
desegregation plan, the passage
of two bond issues, and the creation
of a strategic plan for the 14,000 - student district.
While the Court's decision will have obvious implications for the future
of desegregation programs, it may also complicate the
implementation of NCLB.