Sentences with phrase «means of desegregation»

The district argues that busing is no longer a viable means of desegregation in the district, which is now 80 percent minority.

Not exact matches

If you want to improve the schools, I mean, this is something we know since Brown v. Board of Education — where you have desegregation by race and class.

That seminal law explicitly states that «desegregation» means the assignment of students to schools «without regard to their race, color, religion, or national origin,» and shall not be interpreted to mean «the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance.»

(b) «Desegregation» means the assignment of students to public schools and within such schools without regard to their race, color, religion, or national origin, but «desegregation» shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome raciDesegregation» means the assignment of students to public schools and within such schools without regard to their race, color, religion, or national origin, but «desegregation» shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racidesegregation» shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance.

Buses for school desegregation rarely crossed the urban - suburban boundary, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling in 1974, which meant that suburban students would not have to participate in court - ordered desegregation of city schools.

Another often - cited means of helping schools better serve black students is desegregation.

But what both sides fail to understand is that desegregation was pursued mostly as a last resort; blacks wouldn't achieve it immediately through the fiscal means (equal funding of schools) simply because of the opposition of Jim Crow segregationist - controlled school boards and legislatures.

The forced desegregation brought about by Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 meant that inner city whites set up private schools of their own (often in the suburbs) which didn't have to follow the letter of the law.