Sentences with phrase «of desegregation efforts»

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.

Not exact matches

«The Oklahoma City case study suggests,» wrote Jellison, «that integration plans, with a great deal of effort, can work more effectively and that courts, rather than releasing districts from desegregation plans after only several years of operation, should ensure that everything possible is being done to promote an integration plan's success.»

Steven Rivkin: Desegregation efforts did improve the racial balance of public schools.

The findings set the stage for furthering desegregation efforts — in particular, court - ordered busing of students in an attempt to increase the diversity of city schools.

The report also indicates that controlled choice — a type of voluntary desegregation that allows parents some choice about which schools their children will attend — and other desegregation efforts benefit minority students.

The scholarship is part of a $ 2 million effort to compensate Ms. Moseley, 57, and other African - Americans who were denied portions of their K - 12 education when some Virginia schools resisted desegregation orders in the 1950s and 1960s by closing their doors.

Initially a tool for desegregation efforts in the 1970s (i.e., by encouraging white parents to stay in urban districts), magnets have evolved to serve a wide variety of purposes and settings.

A federal judge has ended an 18 - year - old desegregation suit against the Lowndes County, Ala., schools, after declaring further efforts at integration pointless since the overwhelming majority of students in the district now are black.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education found legally segregated schools to be unconstitutional, but it was not until the legislative and executive branches put the full strength of the federal government behind desegregation efforts, by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that serious progress was made in the South.

Today, questions about the effects of changes in housing patterns and recent Supreme Court decisions that weaken desegregation efforts remain central to discussions of educational opportunity and racial achievement gaps.

active support by private foundations and community groups of efforts to continue local desegregation plans and programs, through research, advocacy and litigation;

As the potential for desegregation efforts is determined by the distribution of students among districts, I report the index for districts as well as for schools.

The absence of an evaluation component from most desegregation programs has complicated efforts to measure program effects.

Rivkin finds that black students» likelihood of exposure to white students in 2012 was 27 percent, compared to 36 percent in the 1980s when serious desegregation efforts were underway (see Figure 1a below).

Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous desegregation efforts in southern states.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

NCLB is in many respects the latest in a long line of efforts in the policy and legal arenas to promote equity and opportunity in the public schools, including desegregation cases, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the original ESEA, and school finance and adequacy cases in the states.

A California judge has said he will end two decades of state court supervision over desegregation efforts in the San Diego schools.

Denver school officials said they planned to file a motion late last week seeking to end federal court supervision of the district's 22 - year old desegregation effort.

But it seems clear that passage of the measure, which appears on the state's Nov. 5 ballot as Proposition 209, would raise questions about a host of programs that public K - 12 schools and colleges offer — from voluntary desegregation efforts to certain tutoring and outreach programs.

Louisville, Ky., school officials have approved a new student - assignment plan that emphasizes school reform at the expense of efforts to achieve desegregation.

For example, Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., created magnet schools as part of its school desegregation efforts in the late 1970s.

The program has recently come under fire from the U.S. Department of Justice, which has filed a lawsuit alleging the program is impeding federal school - desegregation efforts initiated in the 1970s.

Our analysis of the Louisiana Scholarship Program reveals that the vouchers used by the subset of recipients for whom information is available have supported public - school desegregation efforts.

Educators were unclear last week how passage of the broadly worded California Civil Rights Initiative will affect affirmative action, voluntary desegregation efforts, and academic programs targeting minorities and women in the state.

Shep Melnick (Boston College) and James Ryan (University of Virginia School of Law) draw lessons from judicial efforts to promote school desegregation and civil rights.

There's no denying the state's racist history of school segregation or its ugly efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s to undermine desegregation orders by helping white children to evade racially integrated schools.

«Massive Resistance» was the name adopted by the united effort of White leaders and politicians to prevent desegregation.

«I can't think of any administration that was in love with school desegregation efforts,» said Columbia Law School Professor Ted Shaw, who worked as a trial attorney at the Justice Department during the Carter and Reagan administrations.

Over the past three years, the district has enrolled 2,200 students into a new early - childhood program financed partly through the release of funds formerly set aside for desegregation efforts, bringing up the number of enrolled students.

These awards recognize magnet schools that demonstrate commitment to high academic standards, curriculum innovation, successful desegregation and diversity efforts, and consistent delivery of high quality educational services to all stakeholders.

Even worse, because the move is «part of the Sheff desegregation settlement» it will make a mockery of the historic effort and the tens of million in public funds that have been spent to implement the Sheff settlement initiatives to date.

GOP bill could dismantle one of nation's most robust school desegregation efforts washingtonpost.com/local / educatio

After years of failed desegregation efforts, black and Puerto Rican groups were demanding control of their children's education.

Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has invited President Obama to tour schools with him when the president visits the state at the end of the week, the latest in Jindal's efforts to protest the Department of Justice's attempts to intervene in the state voucher program, which DOJ says interfere with desegregation efforts in some Louisiana districts.

Darien Franco, 2011 graduate of Capital Preparatory Magnet School told me, «I think that the desegregation goal is a bit superficial because what I assume is the whole point is part of an effort to make sure everyone's getting a similar, quality education.

The principal of a Manhattan public school where white parents spoke out against desegregation efforts has requested more police at her campus.

But since 1988, when education policy shifted away from desegregation efforts, the reading test score gap has grown — to 26 points in 2012 — with segregated schooling increasing in every region of the country.

Desegregation efforts in the 1960s and 1970s did help middle class blacks gain greater access to society; but they, like their white middle class schoolmates, were already guaranteed some level of it.

Although Duncan painted desegregation efforts as largely a flop, there were both successes and failures at all levels of education — preschool, K - 12 and higher education, he said.

For the past year, the majority on the board of the 167 - school district have been pushing to return to zoned schooling, essentially eliminating the array of magnet schools and other options created as part of a three decade - long desegregation effort.

In the telling of authors Chris Ford, Stephenie Johnson, and Lisette Partelow, educational vouchers were born of «massive resistance» — the effort by southern states to resist court - ordered desegregation after the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruling.

The Obama administration has said that Louisiana's school voucher program, which allows children to transfer out of failing public schools into private schools on the public's dime, has hurt desegregation efforts in Louisiana.

School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movement.

She is the author of The Children In Room E4: American Education on Trial, which chronicles a landmark civil rights case and life in a classroom and neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview study of the adult lives of African Americans who had participated in a voluntary school desegregation effort in suburban Boston.

The dramatic black and white pictures, combined with the fascinating and little - known tale of Sanders» involvement in school desegregation efforts, made this Chicago Reader piece something everyone who came across it wanted to read.