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.
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.»
Not exact matches
In recent weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio's
policies have run up against an age - old forces
of inertia and resistance in the city, especially one that springs forth in
policy debates on everything from housing to bike lanes to school
desegregation and even closing down Rikers Island jails.
Nearly 58 years after Brown v. Board
of Education,
desegregation policies seem to be moving in the wrong direction, write the authors
of Integrating Schools in a Changing Society.
Like a growing number
of other school districts, Denver is coming to terms with the end
of a court
desegregation order that for years profoundly influenced, and often dictated, many
of the decisions about education
policy made there.
A federal appeals court in Boston has narrowly upheld a voluntary
desegregation plan in the Lynn, Mass., school district in a case that is being closely followed by supporters and critics
of race - conscious
policies in K - 12 schooling.
The timing coincides with the
desegregation of many school districts, especially in the South, but other
policy, economic, and social changes may also have influenced the achievement gap.
Despite the challenges
of isolating the impact
of school
desegregation on student achievement, a small but growing body
of research provides valuable evidence on the relationship between segregation
policies and students» academic and social outcomes.
Trained as a historian under Harvard scholar Bernard Bailyn, Tyack believed that the careful sifting
of past education
policies could inform policymakers» debates on reforms such as
desegregation, vouchers, charter schools, and leadership.
Gary Orfield, professor
of education and social
policy at HGSE, worked closely with Howe on the
desegregation of the San Francisco school district.
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.
Through her involvement as a research assistant for the CRP — a position she started in 2005 when she was still a doctoral student at HGSE — Garces has served as counsel
of record in three amicus curiae briefs for the Supreme Court, including the recent Fisher v. University
of Texas, and previously on a case involving the constitutionality
of K — 12 voluntary
desegregation policies.
Last semester students from Mehta's class presented a 22 - page wiki site focused on a wide range
of hot topics in education
policy including
desegregation and METCO, teacher preparation, merit pay, and socioeconomic integration
of schools.
Professor Gary Orfield is Professor
of Education and Social
Policy and founding Co-Director
of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University is the author
of many books and articles on school
desegregation and other civil rights issues and his work was cited by the Supreme Court in its recent decision on affirmative action.
The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing
desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights
policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel
of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.
But, thanks to an apparently unprecedented
desegregation policy adopted by the Palm Beach County school board, at least one developer here recently has been going out
of its way to reach the African - American market.
His lawsuit challenges the constitutionality
of a district
policy setting quotas for minority students that stems from the federal court's 1975
desegregation order.
Denver — The Denver school board's proposal to end eight years
of mandatory busing, formulated in response to a judge's request for a «unitary, non-racial» enrollment
policy, is not a
desegregation plan, school officials admitted in federal district court last week.
There, in 2012 a public school — choice
policy prescribed by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) fell afoul
of the inherited judicial law
of desegregation.
Rucker Johnson, a professor
of public
policy at the University
of California at Berkeley, has studied the life trajectories
of students born between 1945 and 1970, focusing on the effects that exposure to court - ordered
desegregation had on their lives.
It reported that most districts — 92
of them, in fact — adopted
desegregation policies that combined two or more highly race - conscious strategies, for example, rezoning or pairing.
«A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in School Integration
Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light
of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board
of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context
of the Court's Brown v. Board
of Education decision in 1954 and the
desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK in 1957.
David Armor, president
of a California consulting firm, National
Policy Analysts Inc., told the commission at its monthly meeting that the charges leveled by the
desegregation researcher Gary Orfield, a political - science professor at the University
of Chicago, are without basis.
In an examination
of desegregation plans around the country, two
of the study's authors — David J. Armor, a senior fellow at the Institute
of Public
Policy at George Mason University in Virginia,...
During the 1970s and 1980s, for instance, the Nixon and Reagan administrations strongly opposed court - ordered busing — then a popular method
of district integration — and weakened civil rights
policies that would have promoted systemwide
desegregation plans.43
Since the launch
of school
desegregation policies in the 1960s, magnet schools have demonstrated the effect
of incentivizing voluntary integration, both in terms
of socioeconomic status and race, among families.
Every private school participating in the voucher program must comply with the color - blind
policies of the federal
desegregation court orders.
Whereas, the Hawkins / Jones platform
of a Green New Deal calls for equitable funding for all
of our schools, reduced class sizes across the state, support for programs that promote
desegregation in our schools, an end to zero - tolerance discipline
policies driving the school - to - prison pipeline, and allowing schools to develop methods
of assessment organic to the learning process, and
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.
Indeed, one wonders if Connecticut officials had forced Hartford's charters to abide by
desegregation policies all along, would the city have reached its Sheff goals long ago, saving the state millions
of dollars?