Sentences with phrase «of desegregation»

For example, the AFT refused to charter segregated locals and filed an amicus brief in support of desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education.

White flight almost certainly altered the effects of desegregation policies in many cities, especially in places such as the Northeast, where school districts within metropolitan areas tend to be small and numerous.

Whereas in Mockingbird he opposed the bigots, in Watchman he joins them as they organize to resist the implementation of desegregation policies in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.

He points out that Cuomo himself lives in one the neighborhoods, in Mt. Kisco, that the federal government contends is in violation of the desegregation order.

A handful of experimental studies of desegregation programs compare participants with nonparticipants.

Nothing in the extensive history of desegregation efforts over the past 50 years gives the districts, or this Court, any reason to believe that another method is possible to accomplish these goals.

Local PUSH president Reverend Dr. William H. Howell stated: «If we must march let us march against the Klan mentally in government, industry and business... We need to march for a workable affirmative action plan, and for the full implementation of the desegregation plan in our school.»

it did not have any documentation related to the desegregation case, and district officials could not explain the purpose or goals of its desegregation spending

Jonathan Guryan in 2002 used the desegregation plan data assembled by Welch and Light to study the change in high - school dropout rates between 1970 and 1980, and found that the implementation of desegregation during the 1970s reduced the high - school dropout rate during that period.

Evidence on the achievement effects of desegregation by income is limited by both an absence of detailed information on family income (including indicators for severe poverty or high income) and the difficulty in separating the effects of students» own circumstances from the influences of peers.

Wolters constructs a largely chronological history since the first half century of the 1954 Brown decision, and his case studies of desegregation - in - action are drawn from contemporary news coverage and subsequent historical, legal, and political science scholarship.

And he refers to the enormous increase in expenditures for Kansas City schools in the wake of a desegregation suit, and its limited results (see my review of Complex Justice by Joshua M. Dunn, «Finding the Right Remedy,» book review, Spring 2009).

When students in a New Jersey public middle school decided to learn about their community's history of desegregation through a unique language arts and social studies project, no one imagined how powerful the experience would be for everyone involved.

Since around 1975, magnet schools have been used as «a method of desegregation.»

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

Though we are advocates of the desegregation program we, along with other suburban schools, will be forced to make a tough decision: keep St. Louis city children at our expense or send them back to a system that is clearly fragile and ailing.

Featuring over 40 paintings and a selection of drawings, tear - sheets, and other related works, including original Saturday Evening Post covers, American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell traces the evolution of Rockwell's art and iconography throughout his career — from carefully choreographed reflections on childhood innocence to consciousness - raising images documenting the traumatic realities of desegregation in the South.

And he points out that Cuomo himself lives in one the neighbor hoods, in Mount Kisco, that the federal government contends is in violation of the desegregation order.

The third in a series of reports spanning nearly three decades shows a continuing advance in the support of desegregation by U.S. whites.

In connection with his HarvardX course, «Saving Schools,» Paul E. Peterson sits down with James Ryan, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to discuss the legacy of desegregation policy on American schools.

In addition, these studies capture only the most direct impacts of the desegregation program and are limited to a few interventions that may not be typical.

Indiana officials have agreed to provide the Fort Wayne schools with an extra $ 12.9 million over six years to fund educational improvements as part of a desegregation settlement.

Since there were only a few of us at first, the early days of desegregation stirred up little fuss.

U.S. District Judge Alfredo C. Marquez last week ruled that the district had failed to show, as required under the terms of a 1978 settlement of a desegregation suit, that closing the school would be consistent with ongoing efforts to reduce segregation and would not place a disproportionate burden on minority students.

This is not to imply that the original argument can simply be readjusted in light of the failure of the desegregation movement.

This year also marks the 40th anniversary of another desegregation decision, Milliken v. Bradley, which is far less well - known.

Three days after publicly declaring his position on a number of desegregation issues, Boston's school superintendent, Robert R. Spillane, was reappointed to the position he has held for the past seven months by a 4 - 1 vote of the Boston School Committee.

As Director of Desegregation for Cambridge Public Schools, Dr. Kohn led the development of the first voluntarily formulated desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board of Education.

Points are given if a student's neighborhood school is overcrowded, if a student's sibling attends the school, if the student has been wait - listed at another magnet, and a student's race is also considered because of the desegregation mission of magnet schools.

It was notorious for many reasons: First, the court ordered enormous state and city expenditures, intending to attract white schoolchildren from the suburbs to the Kansas City schools so as to provide the minimum number of white children that proponents of desegregation considered necessary for a desegregated or «unitary» school.

His accomplishments included oversight of the desegregation of the Baltimore City Public Schools in 1954, and championing the development of Charles Center and the Inner Harbor.

They were optimistic that southern leaders would ensure a calm reception of the desegregation order (June 2, 1954).

Evidence From the End of Desegregation in Charlotte — Mecklenburg.»

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

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, acting in a case that has been closely monitored across the nation, has upheld a federal district judge's order freezing $ 47.5 - million in Education Department funds pending the Reagan Administration's payment of desegregation aid to Chicago's schools.

EN: What are the nonacademic benefits of desegregation, particularly for poor and minority students?

In the focus groups we ran, people often discussed the downsides of desegregation — the biggest of which is lack of belongingness, especially for students of color who, in many desegregated schools, do not get welcomed in the same way, or get access to the same experience as white students.

By controlling for a wide variety of other characteristics, including the students» own prior performance, our analysis is able to estimate the likely effect of desegregation within the school.

For example, white flight from integrating schools, a topic that Coleman (in other studies) explored in considerable depth, certainly slowed the rate of desegregation, especially during the years 1968 to 1980, when the most aggressive desegregation steps were being taken.

Several studies have examined the average effect of either the introduction or the removal of desegregation programs using variation in timing across districts.

Saying he was acting on behalf of «helpless» students, a federal judge in Kansas City, Mo., last week issued a sweeping order imposing substantial new income and property taxes through 1992 on area residents to finance components of a desegregation plan for the city's schools.

The tax increases will underwrite $ 187 million in capital improvements to schools, $ 35.7 million in pay raises for teachers, and other elements of the desegregation effort.

Magnet schools were originally funded as tools of desegregation under the Emergency School Assistance Act from 1972 to 1981.

The report includes comparisons between the earliest available data and the present and between the high point of desegregation and the most recent data.

Though the program falls under the law's choice provisions, the federal government still considers magnets an important aspect of desegregation policy, defining a magnet school as one that «offers a special curriculum capable of attracting substantial numbers of students of different racial backgrounds.»

During a press conference at historic Central High School, Superintendent Henry P. Williams said a recently completed analysis showed the system has met 96 percent of its desegregation goals.

The superintendent of the Little Rock schools planned last week to seek an end to court supervision of desegregation efforts in the Arkansas district.