Sentences with phrase «of desegregation considered»

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.

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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.»

When considering only the districts that are under federal desegregation orders, 74 percent of the transfers improved integration at the sending school.

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.

Claire Smrekar and Ellen Goldring found that with regards to desegregation, «the issues of racism and intolerance born out of ignorance and isolation seem to coalesce for many parents into a perspective that considers school integration at the elementary school level an important starting point» (Smrekar and Goldring, 106).