Sentences with phrase «including school desegregation»

His litigation experience includes service as an Assistant District in Manhattan and as plaintiffs» counsel in federal civil rights litigation, including school desegregation and voting rights cases.

Yet for all he achieved in his seven years, Duncan said he's disappointed to leave office without having made sufficient progress in several other areas, including school desegregation.

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I'm only just starting this one, but I can already see that it's more social - history - driven than Free for All, including some fascinating insights on how such seemingly far - flung issues as race, desegregation and gender have played into the development of the current school lunch program.

Hawkins» platform includes tax reform that would create a city income tax, anti-poverty initiatives, state - supported worker co-ops for poor and working - class people, public ownership of utilities and desegregation of schools and housing.

A new study, appearing in Education Next, shows that in the 34 districts under federal desegregation orders, including the 24 districts specifically named in the DOJ lawsuit, LSP transfers actually improve integration in both the public schools students leave and the private schools in which they enroll.

By controlling for a wide variety of other characteristics, including the students» own prior performance, our analysis is able to estimate the likely effect of desegregation within the school.

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

NCLB is in many respects the latest in a long line of efforts in the policy and legal arenas to promote equity and opportunity in the public schools, including desegregation cases, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the original ESEA, and school finance and adequacy cases in the states.

Last semester students from Mehta's class presented a 22 - page wiki site focused on a wide range of hot topics in education policy including desegregation and METCO, teacher preparation, merit pay, and socioeconomic integration of schools.

This report also supports desegregation but it recognizes that desegregation is best achieved through a fully developed system of choice and competition that includes charter schools, school vouchers, and a well developed system of choice among traditional public schools.

In 1981 they were folded into the Chapter 2 block - grant program, but explicit federal support for magnet schools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Securischools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic SecuriSchools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Security Act.

WASHINGTON — After an eventful year that included important rulings on desegregation, graduation prayers, and sexual harassment in the schools, the U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term this week without any major education cases on its docket.

Ruling in a 25 - year - old school - desegregation case, the judge rejected the state's argument that the district could pay for the court mandates through cost - saving measures, including cutting...

Long - term studies of black adults who as children were subject to court - ordered desegregation programs, have found significant gains from attending integrated schools, including higher earnings and better health.

His publications include works on school desegregation, access, success and desegregation in higher education, teacher education and equity issues in assessment.

-LSB-...] Our goal in filing a motion for further relief -LSB-...] was straightforward: The United States is seeking the court's assistance in ensuring that the information Louisiana collects in connection with its school voucher program is provided to the United States in a timely fashion and that Louisiana implements its program in full compliance with federal law, including the desegregation order in this case.

The exhibit also tells the larger story of Jackson's decades - spanning career, including his images of Jack Ruby's murder trial, school desegregation and Beatlemania.

Below: Some Information on Boston School Desegregation (2004), mixed media installation with furniture, books, two - channel video, sound, wall text, included in «Through the Gates: Brown vs. the Board of Education,» California African American Museum, Los Angeles, 2004.

The Supreme Court spelled out in the school desegregation case Cooper vs. Aaron that states, including «the officers or agents by whom (the state's) powers are exerted,» must comply with Supreme Court decisions even if they disagree with them.

This includes registering voters for the Boston Election Commission in 1967, helping to establish the second Independent Living Center in the United States for persons with disabilities in the 1970's, establishing bi-racial councils in Boston Public Schools during desegregation, and supporting equal rights for the LGBTQ community.