Sentences with phrase «mandated desegregation»

The report focuses in on Prince Edward County in Virginia, and the county's resistance to court - mandated desegregation.

His courage of conviction in the early 2000s as he and fellow board members pursued unitary status for Aldine ISD following a 40 - year court - mandated desegregation order framed the next 10 years of his journey as a reform leader.

As a result, they do not help Hartford Public Schools» mandated desegregation goals.

Detroit was placed under a court - mandated desegregation order that involved nearly 800,000 students and fifty - two suburban districts.

The Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which mandated the desegregation of public schools, gave the executive branch a legal precedent for enforcing equal access to education.

For example, Dwight Eisenhower sent military troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce Brown v. Board of Education, which was a legal decision mandating desegregation nationally (although it was determined based on conditions in Topeka, Kansas).

Mandating desegregation neutralized some of the controversy around federal aid to segregated schools — if the law was upheld, it was just a matter of time until schools were somehow integrated.

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In a Washington Times op - ed last year, Carson sharply criticized HUD's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing program, designed to incentivize desegregation - based planning in the nation's cities, calling it a «mandated social - engineering scheme.»

Because pairing and clustering mandates student involvement in desegregation and typically requires that students travel greater distances than under the redrawing of school catchment areas or other voluntary desegregation plans, the finding that this plan type produces the largest enrollment response is consistent with expectations.

Key Findings Overall, in many districts where court - ordered mandate halted desegregation efforts in the past decade, there has been a major increase in segregation.

Nearly six years after Connecticut's landmark desegregation order, the group that initiated the lawsuit that led to the ruling is asking the courts to step in again — this time with a plan of its own that proposes how state leaders should carry out the mandate.

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...

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

Soon after Brown's federal desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools in order to avoid anticipated racial strife envisioned as a result of the public school integration mandate.»

As a result, desegregation and integration policies were mandated by the Supreme Court in order to create an equal and fair education for black Americans and other minorities in the United States (Wells et.

In 1969, desegregation by use of student racial ratios and mandated crosstown busing was put into effect.