Sentences with phrase «maintain racial balances»

Magnet schools have incentives to be academically successful and are required to maintain a racial balance, so they are never truly random in their selection of students.

Not exact matches

Seven NYC schools are part of a new NYC Education Department initiative aimed at maintaining a racial and socioeconomic balance in fast - gentrifying neighborhoods.

It required school districts that had previously maintained a «dual» school system to take all steps necessary to convert to a «unitary» school system, one in which no schools are «racially identifiable,» because the enrollment of each school reflects the racial balance of the school district as a whole.

Ohio adds that a «district may object to the enrollment of a native student in an adjacent or other district in order to maintain an appropriate racial balance.»

An Ohio statute provides, in respect to student choice, that each school district must establish» [p] rocedures to ensure that an appropriate racial balance is maintained in the district schools.»

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.

(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.