Sentences with phrase «long desegregation effort»

For the past year, the majority on the board of the 167 - school district have been pushing to return to zoned schooling, essentially eliminating the array of magnet schools and other options created as part of a three decade - long desegregation effort.

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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.

Virginia has a long and complicated history with school desegregation efforts.