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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shep Melnick (Boston College) and James Ryan (University
of Virginia
School of Law) draw lessons from judicial efforts to promote school desegregation and civil r
School of Law) draw lessons from judicial
efforts to promote
school desegregation and civil r
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.
«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 administra
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 administra
School Professor Ted Shaw, who worked as a trial attorney at the Justice Department during the Carter and Reagan administrations.
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.
GOP bill could dismantle one
of nation's most robust
school desegregation efforts washingtonpost.com/local / educatio
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.
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.
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 mov
School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national
effort we have made to increase equality
of educational opportunity since the
school desegregation mov
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.