Sentences with phrase «mandating racial integration»

Proponents jumped on board the campaign with all sorts of promises that the standards were a civil rights cause, declaring them to be «Brown 2.0 ″ for education — a reference to Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case mandating racial integration in public schools.

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37 Thanks in part to multiple court orders and strong federal enforcement, school districts began to implement racial integration policies.38 From the 1960s through the 1980s, there was a general growth in school district integration as an increasing number of states and districts heeded Brown's mandate and created bussing policies and magnet schools that joined black and white students across neighborhood boundaries.

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.»

From their inception in the late 1960s, Chicago's public magnet schools had a twin mandate: to provide the school system with targeted sites for racial integration and to promote centers of academic innovation and distinction.